His father was a building technician, the mother was a housewife, he also had a brother Andris (composer) and a sister Ruta.
His grandmother Margrieta saved two Jewish men during the German occupation in World War II, for which T. Eniņš received the Righteous Among the Nations award from Yad Vashem.
He was the Head of the Traumatology-Orthopedics department at the Liepāja Central Hospital where he worked as a surgeon and neurosurgeon.
[2] During the last years of his life he spent a lot of his time in the family country estate "Ramati" in Sieksāte, Kuldiga district.
Teodors Eniņš had a wife Aina (née Lamberts) and two children - Dace (GP, internist) and Dzintars (interior designer, died in 1986).