🔥Enid

Welsh

"life, spirit"

Enid Origin and Meaning

The name Enid is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "life, spirit".

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.

Enid Rank in US Top 1000

# 991 in the US

Enid Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 364 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Enid

• 364 Nameberry 2025
• 950 England 2023

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Famous People Named Enid

• 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.

The name 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!"