Enid
Enid is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 412th, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920261 births
- Best rank
- #412in 1920
- Since 1885
- 9,204people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,204 girls have been named Enid in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 261 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Enid | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 26 | |
| 1890s | 211 | |
| 1900s | 312 | |
| 1910s | 1,442 | |
| 1920s | 2,039 | |
| 1930s | 1,146 | |
| 1940s | 1,084 | |
| 1950s | 799 | |
| 1960s | 684 | |
| 1970s | 493 | |
| 1980s | 270 | |
| 1990s | 163 | |
| 2000s | 158 | |
| 2010s | 190 | |
| 2020s | 187 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Enid was the 412th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Enid
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lorainepeak 1922
- Margaritepeak 1925
- Vernicepeak 1923
- Genevapeak 1924
- Palmapeak 1925
- Marcellapeak 1922
- Florinepeak 1921
- Laurinepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.