Entry № 3015 · Welsh origin

Enid Enid — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-nid /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Soul / life (Enid Blyton, children's author; Enid in Wednesday)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "soul / life (enid blyton, children's author; enid in wednesday)".

Enid is from the Welsh Enid — possibly from enaid ("soul, spirit, life"). Enid in Arthurian legend — wife of Geraint; their story is told in Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1859) — "Enid and Geraint" is one of the most-anthologized of the Idylls.

Soul / life.

The name in its native script.

Enid
Transliteration
Enid
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.nɪd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Enid stands.

Enid does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Enids before her.

Real people
Enid Blyton
English children's author.
1897 – 1968
Enid Bagnold
English novelist.
1889 – 1981
In fiction
Enid Sinclair
Wednesday.
2022
Enid
Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
1859

Names connected to Enid.

The number behind Enid.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Enid reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.