Fun Facts About the Name Henok
- 327 babies named Henok: U.S. records list 327 babies given the name Henok from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Henok Mean?
Henok is the Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez form of the biblical name Enoch. It comes from Hebrew Ḥanokh (חֲנוֹךְ), which is built from the root ḥ-n-k, meaning "to dedicate," "consecrate," or "train up." The literal sense is therefore "dedicated" or "consecrated." Because the same root can describe the formal setting apart of a person or object, and also the training or initiating of a person, some explanations of the name give the looser sense "initiated" or "disciplined." "Dedicated" is the usual and most widely accepted meaning.
Henok is not a separate name with its own etymology; it is the same Hebrew name carried into the Ethiopian and Eritrean church languages, where it is written ሄኖክ and pronounced with the stress on the first syllable. In Greek the name appears as Ἑνώχ (Henōch), and in Latin and most European languages as Enoch.
Henok Name History & Origins
The name goes back to two figures in the book of Genesis. One is a son of Cain, after whom Cain named a city (Genesis 4:17). The other is a son of Jared and the father of Methuselah, of whom Genesis says that he "walked with God" and was taken by God (Genesis 5:21 - 24). The second Enoch became the focus of later tradition.
Jewish writers in the last centuries before the Common Era and the first century CE attributed a large body of visionary writings to Enoch. The longest collection, now called 1 Enoch, was composed in Aramaic and Hebrew, but its complete text survives only in Ge'ez, the classical language of Ethiopia. A shorter work, 2 Enoch, survives in Slavonic, and a later Hebrew text is known as 3 Enoch.
Because the Ge'ez translation of 1 Enoch was preserved and read as Scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ge'ez form of the prophet's name, Henok, remained familiar in those churches and passed into everyday use as a given name among Amharic and Tigrinya speakers in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Elsewhere the same biblical name entered European languages through Greek and Latin as Enoch, with forms such as Enok in Scandinavia. Those spellings and the Ethiopian and Eritrean Henok descend from the same Hebrew original rather than from one another.
How Popular is the Name Henok?
Henok has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2008. Its best rank was #4,767 in 1997.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,493 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #10,108 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #7,967 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #6,457 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2020 | #5,807 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2019 | #5,915 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2018 | #6,857 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2017 | #8,395 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2016 | #8,386 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #6,823 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2014 | #11,224 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #6,030 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #5,810 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2011 | #13,010 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #6,828 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2009 | #8,551 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2008 | #5,136 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2007 | #7,802 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2006 | #5,390 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2005 | #5,992 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2004 | #12,008 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #6,908 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2002 | #5,519 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2001 | #11,202 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #5,995 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #4,767 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1996 | #7,433 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1995 | #7,290 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1994 | #6,603 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1993 | #7,096 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #6,160 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1989 | #8,373 | 5 | 0.0002% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Henok Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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