Enrico
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/enriko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Enrico is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 79th most common given name.
- ITItaly≈1 in 507(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.7K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 507 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian form of German pHeinrich (see German supplement) and English Henry (see main dictionary).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Enrico is read(measured from records)
Enrico is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Italian35%
a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Germanico Heinrich; equivale ad Americo/Emerico: 'potente in casa, in patria'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Germanico, da haim «casa» + ric «potente, signore».
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
forma italiana de Henricus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- English23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Enrico in English.
- German19%
) Enriko: im 20. Jh. aus dem Italienischen übernommener männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Spanish7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Enrico in Spanish.
- Portuguese6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Enrico in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Enrico, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Enrico counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #79 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 507 | 289 | Enrico | 254 |
| PH Philippines | #974 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Enrico | 77 |
| BR Brazil | — | 16,713 | 1 in 13K | 17K | Enrico | 141 |
| US United States | — | 5,049 | 1 in 66K | 5K | Enrico | 307 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Enrico | 32 |
| CH Switzerland | #612 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 20 | Enrico | 78 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Enrico is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Italian form of German pHeinrich (see German supplement) and English Henry (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Enrico Dandolob. 1107ITDoge of Venice (1107-1205)
- Enrico Bettib. 1823ITItalian mathematician (1823-1892)
- Enrico Carusob. 1873ITItalian opera singer (1873–1921)
- Enrico De Nicolab. 1877ITPresident of Italy from 1946 to 1948
- Enrico Fermib. 1901ITItalian–American physicist (1901–1954)
- Enrico Berlinguerb. 1922ITItalian politician (1922–1984)
- Enrico Mediolib. 1925ITItalian writer (1925-2017)
- Enrico Maria Salernob. 1926ITItalian actor (1926–1994)
- Enrico Bombierib. 1940ITItalian mathematician (1940-)
- Enrico Lettab. 1966ITItalian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 86 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 17K | #1,195 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 6.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5K | #3,885 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.9K | #3,930 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 289 | #94 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 126 | #1,195 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #3,885 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Enrico come from?
- Italian form of German pHeinrich (see German supplement) and English Henry (see main dictionary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Enrico?
- In the etymology graph, Enrique, Henry and Harry are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Enrico a male or female name?
- Enrico is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Enrico?
- A machine transcription gives /enriko/ (IPA) for Italian.
- In which country does Enrico have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 123 thousand people named Enrico in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled enrico.
- What does the name Enrico mean?
- In Italian, a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
- How common is the name Enrico?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 16,713 people named Enrico in 2022, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Enrico compared with other names?
- In Italy, Enrico is the 79th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Enrico?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/enricoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Enrico” — the 79th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.