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Enid

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Celtic name of uncertain meaning [1] [2]

Theories include

1) Breton Bro Wened = 'territory corresponding to the area around modern-day Vannes in Brittany' [3]

2) Female form of Áedán [4]

3) Welsh enaid = 'soul, life' [5] [6]

4) Celtic name meaning 'pure, true' [5]

Related Names

Enid ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Enida ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish

See also Enita

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Enid
Genitive: Enids
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Enid
Genitive: Enidin
Partitive: Enidiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Enid
Genitive: Enids
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Enid
Genitive: Enids

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
78 194 69 185 9 9
Denmark Denmark[8]
46
n.a.
 44
n.a.
 2
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 59
n.a.
 59 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
68
n.a.
 68
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Enid.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  3. ↑ Judy Sierra: Celtic Baby Names (1997)
  4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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