Enoch
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Meaning
from Hebrew 'Chanoch', meaning 'dedicated' or 'trained'
The story
Genesis gives Enoch an astonishingly small doorway. He is said to have walked with God, and then to have been no more because God took him. That brief, mysterious line helped inspire a much larger body of ancient Jewish visionary writing attributed to him. The Book of Enoch travels through heavens, angels, judgment, and the movements of celestial bodies. Much of the work vanished from Western view, while a complete version survived in Ge'ez through Ethiopian manuscript and church traditions. It remains within the broader biblical canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Enoch comes from a Hebrew name commonly understood as dedicated. The later books are attributed literature, not an ordinary autobiography written by the Genesis figure. That distinction makes the history more interesting, not less. A nearly silent ancestor became a voice for immense visions, and a text many readers lost was kept alive in another language and tradition.
How popular is Enoch around the world?
In the United States, 2,004 babies were named Enoch between 2020 and 2025.
Enoch is on the official records of the United States, Canada, England and Wales, Ireland, South Australia, Austria, Mexico City, Brazil and Spain.
United States
1 in 11,000
In the United States, 2,004 babies were named Enoch between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Enoch peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure. In US birth records Enoch has stayed between 455 and 2,772 births in every decade since the 1950s: a name everyone knows and few children get.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Canada
1 in 14,000
In Canada, 26 boys named Enoch were born in 2024, the 977th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 15,000
In England and Wales, 40 boys named Enoch were born in 2025, the 811th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Ireland
1 in 18,000
In Ireland, 3 boys named Enoch were born in 2025, the 829th most common name among boys that year.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
South Australia
1 in 18,0002017
In South Australia, 1 boy was registered as Enoch in 2017.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Austria
1 in 25,000
In Austria, 3 boys named Enoch were born in 2025, the 981st most common name among boys that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Mexico City City
1 in 59,000
In Mexico City, there were 2 registrations of Enoch in 2022.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Brazil
1 in 330,000
At the 2022 census, 553 people in Brazil were named Enoch, ranked 12,461st, with a median age of 56.
Among people named Enoch living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 1950s as in the 1960s, more than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Spain
1 in 820,000
In Spain, 55 residents are named Enoch, ranked 13,388th among men, with a mean age of 27.9 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
New Zealand
last on record 2024
Enoch is not on the 2025 record for New Zealand, where names under 10 in a year are excluded at source.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time
Scotland
last on record 2018
Enoch is not on the 2024 record for Scotland, where spellings under 3 in total are suppressed at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
Not on the record in Argentina, Puerto Rico and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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