Given name
Chanoch
“a dedicated man”
Chanoch is used as a given name. One Hebrew interpretation is “a dedicated man.”
Original Hebrewחנוך
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “a dedicated man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chanoch through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 141
- 141 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,919 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +6%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,919 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 195 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Chanoch’s family of names
In German usage, Chanoch has a conventional equivalent in the English form Hanoch. Chanoch has a related form in Channoc. Chanoch has a related form in Channoch.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Chanoch
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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