Enoch

What Enoch means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Enoch yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #784 in 2015 to #746 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Enoch?

US: Steady: #784 in 2015, #746 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #903 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 60 boys got the name (#200 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,908 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,798 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (0.51 per 1,000 boys), IN (0.44 per 1,000 boys), OH (0.38 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Enoch is #746 in the US and #811 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Enoch were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Enoch

Boys

• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Ezra#20Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #93 in 2015, #20 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Yosef#663Editor’s note Up from #708 in 2015 to #663 in 2025 in the US
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*

For a sister

• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…^*
• Eliza#115Editor’s note Up from #175 in 2015 to #115 in 2025 in the US
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Lena#279“the Large River”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Enoch’s. Rank is US 2025.