Enes
A Latin root that only later picked up its sense of friendship and companionship, Enes reaches Poland mostly by way of Turkey, where boys carry it often. Here it stays rare: a couple hundred bearers, every one of them male.
Enes Pronunciation
Enes is pronounced E-nes (/ˈɛnɛs/).
What Enes means
Where Enes comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Enes reaches Poland with a Latin root and a firmly Turkish reputation. In Turkey it has long been one of the steady favourites for boys, and a Polish family who picks it has likely met it through a Turkish friend or a football broadcast. The short meaning sits plainly in the person it names: friendliness, companionship.
Latin gave the sound its frame, though the sense of a companion attached itself over time and not at the very start. To read Enes as "friend" is to read a later gift rather than a dictionary entry from antiquity. Picture a class register in a Warsaw school with one Enes among the Antonis and Jans; the teacher reads it once and keeps it.
It travels light.
What stays with each bearer is the plain meaning the name brought along: friendliness, companionship.
How many people are named Enes
1 in 82101 men in Poland is named Enes. 260 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1901 among male names.
Enes's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1552 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where Enes is most popular
Enes is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (3 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian3 boys born+510%
Enes as a middle name
Enes is a first name for 260 men in Poland and a middle name for another 57, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 985th, between Emi̇n (57) and Greg (57).
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#983 Arley57
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#984 Emi̇n57
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#985 Enes57
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#986 Greg57
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#987 Hai57