Ensley

Ensley: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“one's own meadow”
Origin
English
Say it
ENZ-lee · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls

From an English surname and place name, probably from Old English elements referring to a meadow or clearing. As a given name, it is mainly modern and surname-style.

How popular is Ensley?

202488.0 per million US babies
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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 Ensley in 2024292

2024 rank#906 girls

Peak year2020

Total US babies since 18803,486

Ensley is rising: use over the last five years is 7.7× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Ensley

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

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Ensley questions

What does the name Ensley mean?

Ensley means "one's own meadow". It comes from English. From an English surname and place name, probably from Old English elements referring to a meadow or clearing. As a given name, it is mainly modern and surname-style.

Is Ensley a boy or girl name?

Ensley is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Ensley?

292 US babies were named Ensley in 2024. Its peak year was 2020.

How do you pronounce Ensley?

Ensley is usually pronounced ENZ-lee.

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.