Derived from the Hebrew name Chanokh, the Greek name Enoch means ‘dedicated’. In the Old Testament, this is the name of the son of Cain. Enoch is considered a classic and strong but also unusual name.
Enoch is a first name for boys.
The name Enoch isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Enoch ranks 735. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Enoch. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Enoch.
Derived from the Hebrew name Chanokh, the Greek name Enoch means ‘dedicated’. In the Old Testament, this is the name of the son of Cain. Enoch is considered a classic and strong but also unusual name.
There is a lot of... interest in the name Enoch in some African countries, including Ghana and Nigeria.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Enoch annualy. This means that there have been boys named Enoch who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Enoch have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Enoch even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record at rank #189 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Enoch was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Enoch has never been ranked higher than #189. In 2022, he rivaled the 760 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 303 boys named Enoch were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Enoch were born, there have been 58 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Enoch, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to men and boys named Enoch. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Enoch living in one state or another. If your name is Enoch and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Enoch relative to the population, you still have to ask 4,745 men and boys their names before you hear Enoch as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Enoch is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Enoch and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Enoch, you can simply say:
Elephant
Nut
Orange
Cat
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Enoch
Enoch
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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N
O
C
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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C
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Enoch sounds like this:
