How Many People Are Named Enoch?

8,982

people named Enoch are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 38,052 people in the US has this name

Based on 13,118 babies named Enoch in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,640

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,037

See the top 100

Peak Year

2023

376 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Pronunciation: EE-nΙ™k (English)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

From the Hebrew name Χ—Φ²Χ Χ•ΦΉΧš (Chanokh) meaning "dedicated". In Genesis in the Old Testament this is the name of both the son of Cain and the father of Methuselah, who was the supposed author of the apocryphal Books of Enoch.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

ChanokhEnok

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Enoch in the records were boys.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Enoch alive today is about 23 years old, and 71% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 35 in 2025.

Under 30 6,400
71.3%
30 to 59 1,589
17.7%
60 and over 993
11.1%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Enoch first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2023, to 376 babies. In 2025, 348 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Enoch has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #202, in 1880. In 2025 it ranked #746.

Boys
Rank in 2025#746
Best rank#202 (1880)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#815 in the 2010s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Enoch alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Enoch were born in California than in any other state: about 1,150 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Enoch was given 4.1 times as often in Utah, 2.5 times in South Carolina and 2.2 times in Alabama.

California 1,150
Texas 676
New York 384
Florida 343
Utah 301
North Carolina 227
Georgia 216
Tennessee 178
Pennsylvania 161
Illinois 155
Ohio 149
Washington 148
Virginia 143
Michigan 131
Arizona 123
Maryland 112
Indiana 102
Missouri 97
New Jersey 95
Colorado 93
Minnesota 84
South Carolina 77
Alabama 68
Wisconsin 44
Louisiana 38
Idaho 31
Oregon 31
Massachusetts 31
Oklahoma 28
Kentucky 24
Mississippi 13
Nevada 12
West Virginia 8
Arkansas 7
Iowa 6
Kansas 5
Hawaii 5
New Mexico 5
North Dakota 5

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