Enver

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Энвер in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Enver is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name18K records spelled Enver5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Austria

  Languages: German, English, Dutch

  Also written Envér

• Russian given name15K records spelled Enver31 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Croatia

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian

  Also written Энвер, Енвер, Энвэр, Еньвер, Ėnver

• Albanian given name14K records spelled Enver3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo, United States, Italy

  Also written Ënver, Envër

• Spanish given name4.7K records spelled Enver6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, Brazil, Türkiye, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Eñver, Envêr, Envér

• a separate given name534 records spelled Enver3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Russia, Ukraine

  Also written Ėnver, Ènver

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Enver is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Turkish soldier and leader of Young

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Albanian, a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Anwar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In kw, soft mutation of Genver

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 108 years between 1909–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• İsmail Enverb. 1881TROttoman politician and general (1881–1922)
• Enver Hoxhab. 1908ALformer First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, Prime Minister of Albania
• Anvar Alikhanovb. 1917AZnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1917–1992)
• Enver Hadžiabdićb. 1945RSBosnian footballer
• Enver Marićb. 1948BABosnian association football player and manager
• Enver Hadžihasanovićb. 1950BABosnian general and war criminal (1950–2024)
• Enver İzmaylovb. 1955UACrimean Tatar folk and jazz guitarist (b. 1955)
• Anvar Chingizoghlub. 1962AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani historian, journalist and writer
• Enver Hoxhajb. 1969XKKosovar politician
• Enver Gjokajb. 1980USAmerican actor

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 295 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Enver?

We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Enver (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Enver have the most bearers?

Enver is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled enver.

Where is Enver most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Enver is densest in Albania — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.

How common is Enver compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Enver is the 247th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Enver a male or female name?

Enver 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.

What does the name Enver mean?

Recorded meaning: Nurlu, çok parlak, çok güzel.