Enid

[Clementineapples]

Fallen in love with this for baby girl. Have changed my mind weekly though 🙈

I love Enid

It was on my list for baby number three (we had a boy)

Are you a fan of “Ghost World”, op?

but I mostly cook boys

I think it's a great name

I know a newborn Ena, which I think is lovely and similar?

I love it.

Every Enid I have known has been sweet, gentle and absolutely delightful. But I've never met a tiny one.

Not a fan. How about Eliza, Jean or Annis?

@Clementineapples DD is Greta. Other vintage names we considered were Frida, Sylvia, Honor, Hazel, Vita and Flora.

We wanted fairly unusual but not weird, strong rather than cutesy/frilly, straightforward to say and spell, and ideally vaguely international.

Not fussed about a name being harsh-sounding, but I’m personally not keen on the -id sound in Enid and to me it says Blyton/Hey Duggee cat/Mildred Hubble’s friend from The Worst Witch.

Just searched Enid on Nameberry and it also suggested these as similar in style:

Sybil
Alma
Agnes
Agatha
Isolde
Edith
Ethel

Maud
Winifred

(Not personally keen on those though other than maybe Isolde).

I like Enid. You don't hear it very often and I was a big fan of the worst witch.

I really like it.

I also recommend Agnes, Agatha and Millicent. All brilliant names.

Love Clara. I really don’t like Enid.

I don't hate it, but prefer Elsie and Edith/Edie

Not keen on Enid. I like Edie or Lydia, Clara, Flora, Hazel as suggested by PP.

Totally with you on changing your mind a million times! I’m currently expecting a girl and she’s had lots of names too. We had a boys name picked out straight away! Girls names are very difficult to settle on as there are so many lovely ones. I do enjoy reading about different names though.

It’s a no from me. There’s cute old lady names and then there’s… well, Enid, Beryl and Pauline.

What about Eden or Evan? Similar to Enid but less old fashioned.

I’ve got an Enid and obviously I think it’s brilliant, but I’d prefer if you didn’t, OP – I’d like her to stand alone, not be another Sarah/Emma/Olivia.

Also: Beulah!

I really like Enid, I think it's cool. I'm Scottish so maybe don't get the complaints about the way it sounds

I really like Enid.
Also like Ida, Maeve and Cora or Cara.

I don’t mind it. Another one who thinks of the cat in Hey Duggee though. And DS calls all cats Enid at the moment. Just to warn you!

How do you say it? I always thought it was "Ee-nid", like Enid Blyton.
There's an Irish name Aodhnat the t is soft almost to a d, but also the Aodh is ay. Nat is purely a feminine ending.

I love it. Makes me think of the character from the Sweet Valley books.

Holy shite, it's awful! Sounds a bit like Penis and very harsh.

Awful,IMHO, I love lots of older style names but Enid is not one of them.

Holy shite, it's awful! Sounds a bit like Penis
You perhaps want your hearing checked.