Enid
About 9,240 American babies have been named Enid since 1885, most of them around 1920. In 2025 it ranked 4,546th. About 3,600 Enids are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,240
- Estimated living today
- 3,600
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 412th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,546th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 9,234 / 6
How old the living Enids are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,240 babies given the name since 1885, about 3,600 are alive — 39 in every hundred. Roughly 440 of them are children and 1,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Welsh
From Middle Welsh eneit (“spirit, life; purity”), from Proto-Celtic *anatyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”). Cognate with cel-gau anatia attested on the Larzac tablet; see also the modern Welsh anadl, from Proto-Celtic *anatlā.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Enids
- Enid Blyton (1897–1968)English author
- Enid Markey (1894–1981)American actress of stage, film and television
- Enid Bagnold (1889–1981)English dramatist, playwright, memoirist
- Enid Bennett (1893–1969)Australian actress
People named Enid with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Enid is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Enid is most concentrated in New York (4.9×), Utah (3.3×), Iowa (2.1×), Idaho (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular girls’ names the year Enid peaked:
Enid elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Enid | 507 | 778th |
| France girls | Enid | 35 | 3,469th |
| Scotland girls | Enid | 17 | 501st |
| Belgium girls | Enid | 5 | 1,448th |
| Ireland girls | Enid | 4 | 747th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Enid | 3 | 391st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Enid by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Enid among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Enid | 12 | 21 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Enid against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.