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Ender

Ender: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“very rare”
Origin
Turkish
Say it
EN-der · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys

Established Turkish name from ender, meaning 'rare' or 'uncommon.' It is unrelated to the English surname Ender in its Turkish usage.

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How popular is Ender?

202433.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Ender in 2024111

2024 rank#1,564 boys

Peak year2022

Total US babies since 18801,783

Ender is rising: use over the last five years is 1.8× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Ender

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Dilanheart; beloved · Turkish
  • Erensaintly person; mature one · Turkish
  • Evrenuniverse, cosmos · Turkish
  • Aslanlion · Turkish
  • Azlanlion · Turkish
  • Aydinenlightened, bright · Turkish
  • Aydanfrom the moon · Turkish

Ender questions

What does the name Ender mean?

Ender means "very rare". It comes from Turkish. Established Turkish name from ender, meaning 'rare' or 'uncommon.' It is unrelated to the English surname Ender in its Turkish usage.

Is Ender a boy or girl name?

Ender is mainly a boy's name in US records (99% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Ender?

111 US babies were named Ender in 2024. Its peak year was 2022.

How do you pronounce Ender?

Ender is usually pronounced EN-der.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.