Given name
Enda
“a flighty woman”
Enda is a variant of Endah. One Irish interpretation is “a flighty woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Enda is a variant of Endah. One Irish interpretation is “a flighty woman.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Enda is a variant of Endah. An origin associated with Endah is Irish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1904. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Enda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 238
- 0 boys · 238 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1973. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 458 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Enda’s family of names
Enda is an English adaptation of Eanna. Enda has a related form in Endah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Enda
- Enda KennyIrish poliitician (* 1951)
- Enda StevensIrish association football playerborn 1990
- Enda WalshIrish playwright (born 1967)
- Enda of AranIrish monastic450–540
- Enda O'CoineenIrish offshore sailor and navigatorborn 1955
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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