Enoch
The boy's name Enoch has been in the national records since 1880, with 13,118 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 746th. About 9,000 Enoches are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Enoch
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,118
- Estimated living today
- 9,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 706th
- Rank in 2025
- 746th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Enoches are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,118 babies given the name since 1880, about 9,000 are alive — 68 in every hundred. Roughly 5,100 of them are children and 810 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Latin Enoch, from Ancient Greek Ἑνώχ, from Hebrew חֲנוֹךְ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Enochs
- Enoch Powell (1912–1998)British politician
- Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (1873–1905)South African composer
- Enoch L. Johnson (1883–1968)American political boss and racketeer
- Enoch Adejarue Adeboye (born 1942)Nigerian pastor
People named Enoch with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Enoch is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Enoch is most concentrated in Utah (5.2×), South Carolina (2.5×), Georgia (2.3×), North Carolina (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Enoch peaked:
Enoch elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Enoch | 606 | 811th |
| France boys | Enoch | 120 | 1,849th |
| Ireland boys | Enoch | 49 | 348th |
| Scotland boys | Enoch | 17 | 560th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Enoch among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Enoch | 10 | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Enoch against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.