Meaning and history
Probably derived from Welsh enaid meaning “soul, spirit, life,” Enid first appears in Arthurian literature in Chrétien de Troyes’s 12th-century French poem Erec and Enide as Erec’s wife, though later adaptations usually make her the wife of Geraint. The name became more widely used after Alfred Tennyson’s Arthurian poem Enid was published in 1859 and was fairly popular in Britain in the first half of the 20th century.
20062006: 12 births, rank #9,286
2007: 9 births, rank #11,630
2008: 17 births, rank #7,408
2009: 15 births, rank #8,058
2010: 8 births, rank #12,276
20112011: 15 births, rank #7,783
2012: 12 births, rank #9,109
2013: 12 births, rank #9,036
2014: 15 births, rank #7,636
2015: 20 births, rank #6,236
20162016: 15 births, rank #7,602
2017: 29 births, rank #4,695
2018: 24 births, rank #5,315
2019: 40 births, rank #3,718
2020: 29 births, rank #4,548
20212021: 34 births, rank #4,167
2022: 28 births, rank #4,793
2023: 66 births, rank #2,646
2024: 30 births, rank #4,560
20252025: 30 births, rank #4,546
Enid moved from #909 to #993 for girls between 1951 and 1954. Its highest annual birth count came in 1920, with 261 births.