Enos is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Enos is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Enos. In the SmartGenius ranking, Enos is #3,083 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Enos.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Enos annualy. This means that there have been boys named Enos 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 Enos 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 Enos even more than any other time: in 1885, it holds its present record at rank #331 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Enos was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Enos has never been ranked higher than #331. In 2022, he rivaled the 3,294 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 29 boys named Enos were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Enos were born, there have been 24 newborns who received this name.
The odds of having a man or boy named Enos in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Enos is registered in 16 states, among which are California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas or Kentucky. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Enos live in Pennsylvania, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 18,127 men and boys in Pennsylvania for their name before you meet one who answers with Enos.
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 four letters, the name Enos is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Enos 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 Enos, you can simply say:
Elephant
Nut
Orange
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Enos
Enos
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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O
S
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.
E
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O
S
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. Enos sounds like this:
