Enoch - name meaning, origin

The boy's name Enoch \e-no-

is pronounced EE-nuk. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "trained and vowed, dedicated; profound". Biblical: Enoch was the father of Methuselah, the oldest living man named in the Bible. Was briefly inspired by Tennyson's famous and sentimental poem "Enoch Arden" from the 1860s to 1880s.

Enoch has 1 variant form: Enock.

For more information, see also related names Chanoch and Hanoch.

Baby names that sound like Enoch are Anicho, Angy, Angie, Ange, Ewing, Inigo, Ignac, Inge and Ingo.

Enoch is a somewhat common first name for men (#1007 out of 1220) and an even more common last name for both men and women (#6921 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)

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