Enid
About Enid
This Celtic goddess and Arthurian name may sound terminally old-ladyish to many ears--but so did names like Ella and Etta not so long ago. So Enid is yet another forgotten four-letter E-possibility: she's has been M.I.A since 1954.
You might not know it to look at her, but Enid is Welsh, from the word meaning 'life' or 'soul.' Back in the Age of Chivalry, to call a woman 'a second Enid' was the greatest of compliments, as she was a legendary romantic figure, revived in Tennyson's Idyll of the Kings. In more modern times, Enid is the title of a Bare Naked Ladies song and a quirky character in the quirky film Ghost World.
As of October 2026, Enid ranked #4586 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #412 in 1920, Nameberry popularity #454.
Editor's take: The name Enid is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "life, spirit".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | #4,724 | 29 | 16.8 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | #3,737 | 40 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | #4,582 | 29 | 17.9 |
| 2021 | #4,185 | 34 | 20.7 |
| 2022 | #4,831 | 28 | 17.1 |
| 2023 | #2,653 | 66 | 41.1 |
| 2024 | #4,578 | 30 | 18.5 |
| 2025 | #4,586 | 30 | 18.7 |
World rankings
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Enid on lists
Famous Enids
- Enid Mary Blyton
English children's novelist
- Enid Algerine Bagnold
Lady Jones, English novelist and playwright
- Enid Collins
American handbag designer
- Enid Markey
American actress
- Enid Eulalie Bennett
Australian silent film actress
- Enid Greene
U.S. Congresswoman from Utah
- Enid Yandell
American sculptor
- Enid Crystal Dorothy Marx
English painter
- Enid Kent
American actress
- Enid Georgiana Stamp Taylor
English actress
- Enid Nemy
American journalist and columnist
- (Enid) Diana Elizabeth Rigg
English actress
- (May) Enid Lorimer
British,Australian actress
- Enid Muriel Lyons
Australian MP; wife of Australian PM Joseph Lyons
- Monica Enid Dickens
English novelist; great,granddaughter of Charles Dickens
- Mary Enid Evelyn Guest
daughter of Lady Charlotte Guest, and wife of Sir Austen Henry Layard
- Enid Mary Blyton
British children's author.
Enid in pop culture
- Enid Coleslaw
character in "Ghost World"
- Enid Nightshade
character in the Worst Witch series
- Enid Rollins
character in the Sweet Valley series by Francine Pascal
- Enid Frick
editor of Vogue magazine on TV's "Sex and the City"
- Enid Mary Sinnott
character "Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel"
- Enid Worsley
character in "Sylvia Scarlett"
- Enid Hoopes
character in "Legally Blonde: The Musical"
- "Enid
" song by the Barenaked Ladies
- Enid
city in Oklahoma
- Enid Lake
lake in Mississippi
- Enid
character on "The Walking Dead"
- Enid Kelso
character in "Scrubs"
- Enid
birth name of Sister Evangelina in "Call the Midwife"
- Tracy Enid Flick
character in Election
- Enid Jones
character "Murdoch Mysteries"
- Enid
April Einar's friend in "Glitch"
- Enid Mettle
character in children's cartoon "Ok, KO! Let's Be Heroes!"
- Enid Sinclair
Character in the TV show "Wednesday"
Variations & nicknames
- Edie