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Enos

#3,147 in 2025Boys' name

Mortal man

Enos has been given to 3,991 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,147 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Enos, 2025

1 in 87,200

Enos over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enos: meaning, origin, and history

Mortal man

Hebrew

What Enos means

Enos means “mortal man”, associated with enósh.

Origin, language, and formation

Enos is used in English and Old Czech. Its origins include Hebrew.

Enos comes through Hebrew אֱנוֹשׁ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Enos is pronounced /ˈɛnos/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,991 boys were recorded with the name Enos between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 1921; its best national rank was #357 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,220 in 2020 to #3,147 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,312 in 2015 to #3,147 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Enos?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,147
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Enos sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enoss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enos was born before 1953 — so the typical Enos is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,113
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 12.5% of all recorded uses (499).

Is Enos rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+87
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+165
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.3%
Peak was 1921 (61)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#357
1885

Spellings of Enos

Enos is not the most common spelling — Amos is, with 17.9% against Enos's 2.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Enos is used

Across 1910–2025, Enos was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 105,165 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  2. 2Indiana1 in 33,333
  3. 3Ohio1 in 50,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Kansas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Enos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Enos around the world

Where Enos ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #1,744
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1964–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Enos

People whose public names include Enos, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Enos by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,147
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 73
Best rank ever
#357
1885
Peak year
1921
61 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,991
Count in 2025
38

Names similar to Enos

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Enos

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Enos, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Enos

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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