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Enid

#4,585 in 2025Girls' name

Spirit, life; purity

Enid has been given to 9,240 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #4,585 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 261 recorded.

Babies named Enid, 2025

1 in 111,000

Enid over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enid: meaning, origin, and history

Spirit, life; purity

Welsh

What Enid means

Enid means “spirit, life; purity”, associated with eneit.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle Welsh eneit (“spirit, life; purity”), from Proto-Celtic *anatyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Enid (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Enid is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

Enid comes through Middle Welsh eneit, Proto-Celtic *anatyom and Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁-.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Enid is pronounced /ˈiːnɪd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,234 girls were recorded with the name Enid between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 261 in 1920; its best national rank was #412 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,580 in 2020 to #4,585 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,300 in 2015 to #4,585 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Enid between 1919 and 1919. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1919; its best national rank was #3,863 in 1919.

How common is Enid?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 53,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,585
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Enid sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enid was born before 1934 — so the typical Enid is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,974
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (2,039).

Is Enid rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+8
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,715
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.5%
Peak was 1920 (261)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#412
1920

Spellings of Enid

Enid is not the most common spelling — Erin is, with 66.7% against Enid's 1.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Enid is used

Across 1910–2025, Enid was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 27,824 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 6,667
  2. 2Utah1 in 10,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 16,667
  4. 4Idaho1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 20,000
  6. 6North Dakota1 in 20,000
  7. 7Nebraska1 in 20,000
  8. 8Kansas1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Enid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Enid around the world

Where Enid ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #778
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2021
    #558
    in 2021
  • Northern Ireland
    2023–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #747
    in 2022
  • France
    2010–2025
    #3,498
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Enid

People whose public names include Enid, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Enid by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,585
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5
Best rank ever
#412
1920
Peak year
1920
261 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,234
Count in 2025
30

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,863
1919
Peak year
1919
6 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1919
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Enid

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Enid

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Enid, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Enid

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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