In 2025, 30 US girls were named Enid, making it the 4,586th most common girls’ name of the year, up 9 places from #4,595 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 30 girls named Enid in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #412, reached in 1920. That year also had the most girls given the name: 261. For comparison, it was #6,302 in 2015 and #928 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Enid in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 6 babies. In all, 9,240 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,039 babies named Enid.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 325 US girls were named Enid; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.