🔥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.

# 991 in the US

Enid Rank in US Top 1000

# 454 on Nameberry

Enid Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Enid Popularity

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 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!"