diff --git a/src/V3Covergroup.cpp b/src/V3Covergroup.cpp
index aebfd1bd4..e013d23e8 100644
--- a/src/V3Covergroup.cpp
+++ b/src/V3Covergroup.cpp
@@ -493,12 +493,31 @@ class FunctionalCoverageVisitor final : public VNVisitor {
     }
 
     // IEEE 1800-2023 19.5.3/19.11.1: partition first, then apply exclusions.
+    // IEEE 1800-2023 19.5.2: an enum coverpoint has one automatic bin per enumeration value
+    void createEnumAutoBins(AstCoverpoint* coverpointp, AstNodeExpr* exprp,
+                            const AstEnumDType* enump) {
+        FileLine* const fl = coverpointp->fileline();
+        for (const AstEnumItem* itemp = enump->itemsp(); itemp;
+             itemp = VN_AS(itemp->nextp(), EnumItem)) {
+            AstConst* const lop = newValueConst(fl, VN_AS(itemp->valuep(), Const)->num(), exprp);
+            AstInsideRange* const rangep = new AstInsideRange{fl, lop, lop->cloneTree(false)};
+            rangep->dtypeFrom(exprp);
+            coverpointp->addBinsp(
+                new AstCoverBin{fl, "auto[" + itemp->name() + "]", rangep, false, false});
+        }
+    }
+
     void createImplicitAutoBins(AstCoverpoint* coverpointp, AstNodeExpr* exprp, int autoBinMax) {
         for (AstNode* nodep = coverpointp->binsp(); nodep; nodep = nodep->nextp()) {
             const VCoverBinsType kind = VN_AS(nodep, CoverBin)->binsType();
             if (kind != VCoverBinsType::BINS_IGNORE && kind != VCoverBinsType::BINS_ILLEGAL)
                 return;
         }
+        if (const AstEnumDType* const enump
+            = VN_CAST(exprp->dtypep()->skipRefToEnump(), EnumDType)) {
+            createEnumAutoBins(coverpointp, exprp, enump);
+            return;
+        }
         const int width = exprp->width();
         const int arithmeticWidth = width + 1;
         V3Number total{coverpointp, arithmeticWidth};
diff --git a/test_regress/t/t_covergroup_enum_autobins.out b/test_regress/t/t_covergroup_enum_autobins.out
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96ace2635
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_regress/t/t_covergroup_enum_autobins.out
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+cg.cp_call.auto[A]: 0
+cg.cp_call.auto[B]: 0
+cg.cp_call.auto[C]: 2
+cg.cp_max.auto[A]: 0
+cg.cp_max.auto[B]: 1
+cg.cp_max.auto[C]: 1
+cg.cp_var.auto[A]: 0
+cg.cp_var.auto[B]: 1
+cg.cp_var.auto[C]: 1
+cg.cp_wide.auto[E01]: 0
+cg.cp_wide.auto[ELARGE]: 1
+cg.cx.auto[A]_x_auto[A] [cross]: 0
+cg.cx.auto[A]_x_auto[B] [cross]: 0
+cg.cx.auto[A]_x_auto[C] [cross]: 0
+cg.cx.auto[B]_x_auto[A] [cross]: 0
+cg.cx.auto[B]_x_auto[B] [cross]: 0
+cg.cx.auto[B]_x_auto[C] [cross]: 1
+cg.cx.auto[C]_x_auto[A] [cross]: 0
+cg.cx.auto[C]_x_auto[B] [cross]: 0
+cg.cx.auto[C]_x_auto[C] [cross]: 1
diff --git a/test_regress/t/t_covergroup_enum_autobins.py b/test_regress/t/t_covergroup_enum_autobins.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..c2434ea87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_regress/t/t_covergroup_enum_autobins.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# DESCRIPTION: Verilator: Verilog Test driver/expect definition
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3
+# or the Perl Artistic License Version 2.0.
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Wilson Snyder
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only OR Artistic-2.0
+
+import vltest_bootstrap
+
+import coverage_covergroup_common
+
+test.scenarios('vlt_all')
+
+coverage_covergroup_common.run(test)
diff --git a/test_regress/t/t_covergroup_enum_autobins.v b/test_regress/t/t_covergroup_enum_autobins.v
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96d622dbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_regress/t/t_covergroup_enum_autobins.v
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+// DESCRIPTION: Verilator: Verilog Test module
+//
+// This file ONLY is placed under the Creative Commons Public Domain
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 David Harris
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+
+// Test automatic bins of an enum coverpoint: one bin per enumeration value
+
+typedef enum logic [2:0] {
+  A = 3'd5,
+  B = 3'd1,
+  C = 3'd7
+} e_t;
+
+typedef enum logic [59:0] {
+  E01 = 60'h1,
+  ELARGE = 60'h1234_4567_abcd
+} wide_t;
+
+class Item;
+  e_t e;
+  function e_t get_e();
+    return e;
+  endfunction
+endclass
+
+module t;
+  e_t v;
+  wide_t w;
+
+  covergroup cg with function sample(Item item);
+    cp_var: coverpoint v;
+    cp_call: coverpoint item.get_e();
+    cp_max: coverpoint v {option.auto_bin_max = 2;}
+    cx: cross cp_var, cp_call;
+    cp_wide: coverpoint w;
+  endgroup
+
+  cg cg_i = new;
+
+  initial begin
+    Item item;
+    item = new;
+    v = B;
+    item.e = C;
+    w = ELARGE;
+    cg_i.sample(item);
+    v = C;
+    item.e = C;
+    w = wide_t'(60'h1_0000_0001);  // not an enum value; aliases E01 in the low 32 bits
+    cg_i.sample(item);
+    $write("*-* All Finished *-*\n");
+    $finish;
+  end
+endmodule