Eneida
Feminine · “The poem of Aeneas”
Eneida is the Spanish name of a Latin poem. Where English speakers say the Aeneid and think of a book, Spanish-speaking families have given the word to daughters for generations.
How old is the name Eneida?
Eneida first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Eneida alive today was born around 1975, making them about 50 years old. About 800 people named Eneida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eneida most popular?
Eneida peaked in 1966, reaching #2191 nationally. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Aeneis to Eneida
The story of Eneida
The poem it names is strange at its center. Its hero is not given a choice about anything: he is told what he must do, does it, loses almost everybody he cares about in the process, and the text keeps returning to how little he wants any of it. He leaves a city he loves because he is ordered to; he abandons a woman who then kills herself; he arrives in Italy and fights a war he describes as unwanted, and the poem ends abruptly with an act of rage rather than a settlement. Rome read it as a national epic for four centuries. It is at least as easy to read as an argument about the cost of one.
Meaning
The poem of Aeneas
The word is the Spanish and Portuguese title of Virgil's epic, formed from the hero's name. As a woman's name it is the title used directly, which is an unusual thing to do and not unusual at all in Spanish, where abstractions and titles are given as names freely.
How the name formed
- Aeneis
- Eneida
Related forms: Eneida · Eneida
Pronouncing Eneida
eh-NAY-duh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Spanish gives the middle vowels their full value.
Nicknames for Eneida
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1951
- Most girls named
- 196629 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2191reached in 1966
- Change vs 2016
- −50.0%5 in 2021, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Eneida in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eneida in Spanish — same name
- Eneida in Portuguese — same name
Eneidas among us
people named Eneida are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Eneida sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a real literary name rather than an invented sound.
- It is understood across the Spanish-speaking world.
- The rhythm is balanced and nothing in it is hard to say.
- English speakers will not recognize the title and will hear Aneda or Elena.
- It is a book title rather than a character's name, which some people find odd.
- The spelling will be checked every time in English-speaking settings.
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- How many Eneidas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Eneida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Eneida in 2025?
- Eneida is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Eneida will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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