Declining since 2019, #5,410 for girls today.
Popularity of Enslee since 2008
Babies named Enslee per year in U.S. Social Security records.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Girls |
|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 |
| 2010s | 151 |
| 2020s | 205 |
Meaning & origin
Enslee first appeared on the U.S. naming charts in 2008, a relatively recent entry into the landscape of invented feminine names. Its peak popularity came in 2023, and it has since shown a declining trajectory after 2019, suggesting a short-lived trend. Despite its recent rise, Enslee remains rare, with an incidence of 1 in 69,881 births in the latest year. The name fits a pattern of modern coinages that combine trendy prefix and suffix elements, a common practice in American naming culture. While it has not yet registered in any top state data, its style aligns with other surname-influenced and ending-in-'lee' names favored in the South and Midwest.
Enslee is a modern coinage, first recorded in the United States in 2008. It appears to be a blend of the popular prefix 'En-' (as in Ensley or English) and the suffix '-lee', a common element in contemporary feminine names. No traditional etymology or historical usage has been established.
Nicknames & variants
Nicknames: En, Lee, Ens
Sibling names for Enslee
Names that share Enslee's style, for a brother or sister.
