Enid
Enid was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,585 among girls’ names; 9,240 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,540 Americans named Enid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 44 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Enid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Enid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Enid is “a female given name from Welsh of obscure meaning.” Its etymology gives the senses “spirit, life; purity” (eneit) and “to breathe, blow” (*h₂enh₁-).
From Middle Welsh eneit (“spirit, life; purity”), from Proto-Celtic *anatyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”). Cognate with Gaulish anatia (“souls (?)”) attested on the Larzac tablet; see also the modern Welsh anadl (“breath, wind”), from Proto-Celtic *anatlā (“breath, breathing”).
/ˈiːnɪd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Enid?
#4,585 among girls’ names, 2025
Enid rose from #6,300 in 2015 to #4,585 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 18.7 per million.
261 babies in 1920, the peak
Enid peaked in 1920, when 261 girls were given it, #412 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,585 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,593 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,653 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,830 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,183 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,580 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,738 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,358 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,726 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,722 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (139)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,300 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,793 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,196 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,269 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,914 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,657 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,174 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,512 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,926 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,480 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,877 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,304 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,315 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,803 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,865 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,187 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,934 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,418 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,121 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,764 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,793 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,049 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,173 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,744 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,274 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,394 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,212 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,341 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,477 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,447 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,460 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,550 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,500 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,548 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,950 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,321 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,472 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,976 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,845 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,740 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,894 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,863 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 78 | #1,367 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,373 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,962 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 62 | #1,440 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 55 | #1,513 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,555 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,356 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 64 | #1,408 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 70 | #1,323 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 104 | #1,061 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 83 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 87 | #1,167 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 94 | #1,106 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 75 | #1,230 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 59 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 61 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 68 | #1,222 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 97 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 87 | #1,035 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 65 | #1,177 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 101 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 92 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 96 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 105 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 114 | #820 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 141 | #673 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 121 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 96 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 116 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 114 | #699 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 96 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 85 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 72 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 92 | #714 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 84 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 99 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 106 | #631 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 121 | #596 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 142 | #533 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 123 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 152 | #535 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 155 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1929 | 174 | #514 | 0.16 |
| 1928 | 157 | #561 | 0.14 |
| 1927 | 164 | #554 | 0.14 |
| 1926 | 187 | #510 | 0.16 |
| 1925 | 214 | #474 | 0.18 |
| 1924 | 195 | #509 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 224 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1922 | 205 | #482 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 258 | #418 | 0.21 |
| 1920 | 261 | #412 | 0.22 |
| 1919 | 246 | #413 | 0.22 |
| 1918 | 219 | #451 | 0.19 |
| 1917 | 191 | #470 | 0.18 |
| 1916 | 174 | #487 | 0.17 |
| 1915 | 137 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 129 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1913 | 110 | #485 | 0.18 |
| 1912 | 115 | #440 | 0.21 |
| 1911 | 87 | #435 | 0.21 |
| 1910 | 34 | #729 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 36 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 51 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1907 | 39 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 30 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 20 | #831 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 30 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 20 | #770 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 30 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 28 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1900 | 28 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 20 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 17 | #827 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 21 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 34 | #508 | 0.14 |
| 1895 | 28 | #565 | 0.12 |
| 1894 | 22 | #630 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 23 | #601 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 24 | #567 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 12 | #810 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 10 | #883 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 8 | #972 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 12 | #760 | 0.07 |
| 1885 | 6 | #959 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Enid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Enid has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 139 years of records.
Girls and boys named Enid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Enid, and how old are they?
3,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 38% of the 9,240 Americans ever recorded as Enid. The median Enid alive today is 63 years old; half are between 44 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 6,529 people named Enid (6,455 women and girls, 74 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,970 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 564 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,270 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 745 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 352 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 224 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 370 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Enid born?
The states with the most babies named Enid are New York, California and Illinois, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,851 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| California | 457 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 392 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 241 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 193 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 191 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 173 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 143 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Iowa | 133 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Utah | 130 | not ranked | 2.2× |
Where Enid is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Enid is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Enid with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Enid
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Enid and names like it
- Compare Enid and LoraineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEnid peaked in 1920.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Enid since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Enid: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Enid.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Enid alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.