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Girl · Hungarian (19th-century literary coinage)
Enikő
Say it: EH-nee-kur
Meaning
Coined by the poet Mihály Vörösmarty from Enéh, the name of the legendary mother of Hunor and Magor in medieval Hungarian chronicles; Enéh itself is often linked to a word for 'hind', but that is not settled.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A 19th-century literary creation by Vörösmarty that became a common girls' name in the 20th century.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 16 babies given this name since 2017
- Most popular in 2020
- 6 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Enikö
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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