Fun Facts About the Name Ensleigh
- 191 babies named Ensleigh: U.S. records list 191 babies given the name Ensleigh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Ensleigh Mean?
Ensleigh is a respelled variant of the English surname and given name Ensley. Its ending matches the common English place-name element -ley, from Old English lēah, meaning "woodland clearing" or "meadow." The first element of the name is not securely identified; it may preserve an Old English personal name, but the surviving evidence does not support a confident translation. For that reason the overall meaning is best given as uncertain rather than as a settled phrase such as "Enna's clearing."
Ensleigh Name History & Origins
Ensley is an English family name of the habitational type - a surname taken from a place - so it originally identified a person by the settlement he came from. Surnames of this pattern arose in England in the later Middle Ages and were later carried to North America, where they were increasingly reused as first names.
The spelling Ensleigh belongs to a recent fashion in English-speaking countries for respelling familiar names with -leigh, an ornamental form of the older -ley ending also seen in Ashleigh and Hayleigh. This change is stylistic: it alters how the name looks without changing its origin.
How Popular is the Name Ensleigh?
Ensleigh has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2018. Its best rank was #4,690 in 2018.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,291 | 24 | 0.0015% |
| 2024 | #6,701 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2023 | #6,238 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 2022 | #6,806 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #4,756 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 2020 | #6,144 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 2019 | #6,803 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2018 | #4,690 | 29 | 0.0017% |
| 2017 | #7,198 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2011 | #17,609 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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