Enid

[Clementineapples]

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

Not a fan. It sounds like a housemaid in an Agatha Christie novel.

I love Enid! But I can only imagine it on a kid up to about 10yrs old.... i wouldn't have wanted to be a teenage Enid. But by the time these kids are teens, it would probably be normal. My kids all have names that would've been weird when I was a teen, but are all pretty normal now!

Also like Ines/ Inez, which is more teenage too, in my view.

I love Enid 🙂

I have an Enid, she's 8 months old. We get a lot of positive feedback on her name (and no doubt a lot of people who smile and say nothing, then talk about how horrible it is later! 😆)

The name has a lot of positive references to me and my husband is half Welsh, we both just fell in love with it. We do use the English pronunciation, though I admit that the Welsh sounds a bit lovelier.

I also loved Ingrid, Frida, Agnes, Maude, Hester... and many others that are still contenders for a hypothetical DD2 so I shall keep to myself. ☺️

I like it op

Just reminds me of The Worst Witch! Brings to mind a sturdy, robust child with flaxen plaits.

If that’s honestly the best name you can choose to bestow on your child... go for it

I suspect it’s not though

I like Enid, pronounced the proper Welsh way. It sounds quite lovely to me. But the Enid Blyton pronunciation will dominate.

It’s the name of a terrifying great aunt in this family. I’d worry that she’d come back and haunt me.

@AnneinNovaScotia

Not a fan. It sounds like a housemaid in an Agatha Christie novel.

Yes. And not a minxy one, the dumpy, not very bright one, who ends up dead when she tries to blackmail the murderer.

I'm with @DramaAlpaca and I thank her for putting it a lot more diplomatically than I would.

Clara is nice. Don’t rush it. We struggled with one of our DC, they changed their name in their teens. Think we should have waited until they were here.

When I heard a year ago that my friends had named their baby Enid I was a bit surprised, but now I really love the name and it suits her.

It’s short, easy to spell and difficult to mispronounce.

Oops, perhaps it can be mispronounced. We’re in Devon not in Wales and I hadn’t realised there was an alternative way to say it..

Are you near Wales, @Clementineapples?

You mean Edith OP, don’t you?

That’s MUCH nicer

Cool, in a similar vein to Margot, but less try hard.

I know one who is about 5.

I think it is horrendous.

@Marimaur

Cool, in a similar vein to Margot, but less try hard.

I'm never quite sure why it's bad to try hard? But that aside surely Enid would be the 'try hard' name as it's far rarer. Margots are everywhere these days.

Undine?

Undone?

I know a little Enid. I like it

She will be nicknamed Blyton at school.

It's not the best name, but it's not the worst.

Love Enid. a classic name. It was my late grandmothers name so I'm used to it. She's the only Enid I've ever known apart from Blyton. Its definitely unusual but I do like it.
Evie is popular round here too.

@MollysDolly

She will be nicknamed Blyton at school.

It's not the best name, but it's not the worst.

I doubt it, tbh. Otherwise everyone who had the same name as someone famous would get a nickname. My names Anne, I’ve never had the nickname Princess, for instance. Even if she did get the nickname Blyton, so what? It’s hardly offensive!

@MollysDolly

She will be nicknamed Blyton at school.

It's not the best name, but it's not the worst.

I really doubt it!