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Girl · Welsh
Enid
Say it: EH-nid
Meaning
Uncertain; possibly linked to enaid 'soul, life'.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Revived after Tennyson's Idylls of the King in the mid-19th century.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1910s
In the United States
- 9,052 babies given this name since 1885
- At its height in 1911, about 1 in 4,800 girls
- 29 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Enid, wife of Geraint in Arthurian romance
- Enid Blyton, English children's author
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- The medieval Arthurian romances
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.