Enrique

Where Enrique comes from

Enrique hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1379
    Enrique III of Castile born
    king of Castille
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1975
    Enrique Iglesias born
    Spanish singer, songwriter and producer
  4. 2000
    Peak, #221
    1,537 babies named Enrique — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #390.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Enrique Iglesias · Spanish singer, songwriter and producer, born 1975
  • Enrique III of Castile · king of Castille, 1379–1406
  • Enrique Granados · Spanish pianist and composer, 1867–1916
  • Enrique Simonet · Spanish painter, 1866–1927
  • Enrique Ballestrero · Uruguayan footballer, 1905–1969

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.