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Enoc vs Enoch

American parents have registered 13,118 Enoches since 1880, against 1,381 Enocs. Enoch is still ahead, with 348 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Enoc against Enoch, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Enoc Enoch

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Enoch has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Enoc had 20 and Enoch had 59.

Side by side

  Enoc Enoch
Total US births 1,38113,118
Most in one year 73376
Babies in 2025 60348
Estimated living today 1,4009,000
Median age today 1414
Peak year 20242023
Best rank 2,057th boys706th boys
Rank in 2025 2,304th746th
First recorded 19551880
Girls / boys 0 / 1,3810 / 13,118

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Enoc Enoch
England and Wales 3606

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Enoc and Enoch.