Enid

Enid stepped out of the Mabinogion wearing silence like a cloak. In the medieval Welsh tale of Geraint, she is the patient wife whose name is often glossed as soul or life, and Tennyson later brought her into Victorian drawing rooms through his Idylls of the King. The two syllables land with a small, firm click, no softening gesture at the end. For a generation it evoked Enid Blyton and lending-library shelves; lately it has begun to stir again among parents drawn to pre-war literary names. Understated, a little stern, quietly luminous. Enid doesn't flirt—she remembers.