girls:
9.2k births since 1885
#1684 (71st percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1919
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
9.2k births since 1885
#2812 (64th percentile)
The name Enid is the #2,812 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,180 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 63.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,684 (70.5% percentile) for all time with 9,174 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1919.
Enid first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1919 for boys). Birth data for Enid is available in 137 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (137 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Enid has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Enid reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 37.6% percentile (ranked #378) with 202 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 210 births per million (ranked 37.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Enid ranks #886 for girls (6.4% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 18.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Enid reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #534) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1919.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Enid".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Enid. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.9% confident that Enid is pronounced as EE-nihd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-nihd, at 31.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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