Enaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- e-NAH-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,868 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,660 for girls
Enaya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “care, concern”. In 2025 it ranked 1,868th for girls in the UK (16 babies) and 4,660th for girls in the US (29 babies).
What does Enaya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Inaya
“care, concern”
Arabic inaya means care or attention, and in Islamic thought can also denote divine providence.
Is Enaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Enaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the UK and 29 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Enaya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,868th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 17,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 113% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were named Enaya, making it the 1,868th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th.
2025 had the most girls named Enaya of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Enaya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 20 girls in the UK were given Enaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,359, up from #1,868 for this spelling alone.
- Enaya 16
- Enayah 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,809th in England and Wales.
Enaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #1,868 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 12 | #2,309 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
How popular is Enaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,660th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 29 about 1 in 55,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 69% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 29 girls in the US were named Enaya, making it the 4,660th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 38 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Enaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Enaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,018 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,909 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,981 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,569 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,663 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,719 |
| 2014 | 17 | #6,985 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
Names like Enaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Inaya, Amira, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Abeeha, Khadija, Nusaybah, Zainab, Raya, Ayah, Amaya
Other spellings of Enaya
Names related to Enaya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Enaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/enaya, updated 20 October 2026.