Henok

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Henok is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ETEthiopia1 in 1.8K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 314K
  • EREritrea1 in 124

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.8K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
103 ●

6.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

HenokLatin · English●2.2K records
ሄኖክEthiopic · Amharic●542 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Henok is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia#612,1801.3K rec.—1Henok36
US United States—1,0603.1K rec.1 in 314K1.1KHenok103
SE Sweden—566284 rec.1 in 18K566Henok15
ER Eritrea#193442 rec.——Henok6
FR France—321265 rec.—listedHenok55
DE Germany—310297 rec.—listedHenok53
GB United Kingdom—284197 rec.——Henok32
ID Indonesia—26031 rec.——Henok48
CA Canada—168131 rec.—3Henok24
AU Australia—102102 rec.——Henok20
ZA South Africa—7280 rec.——Henok10
NO Norway—6770 rec.—418Henok8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • 2.3K19%
  • English2.2K18%
  • Amharic2.1K18%
  • Indonesian6495%
  • Arabic6305%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
2,26819%
English2,22318%
Amharic2,13818%
Indonesian6495%
Arabic6305%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Henok is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name2.4K records spelled Henok4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States

    Also written Henoḵ, Hénok, Ḥénok

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name720 records spelled Henok7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Héñök

  • Spanish given name691 records spelled Henok3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hénok

  • Hungarian given name147 records spelled Henok2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, Netherlands, Canada

    Also written Hénok

  • Hebrew given name89 records spelled Henok2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Ethiopia, United States, India

    Also written הנוק

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05101520199020002010202018 · 2008

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Henok in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1989–2025
Yearrecords
19895
19918
19937
19948
19957
19967
199713
199810
20015
200213
200310
20045
200513
200616
200710
200818
20099
201012
20115
201215
201314
20146
201512
20169
20179
201812
201915
202015
202113
202210
20237
20259

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1989–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

198019902000Henok Goitom, b. 1984Henok Tesfaye Heyi, b. 1990Henok Teklab, b. 1998Henok Mulubrhan, b. 1999Henok Tesfay, b. 2000Henok Getachew Tegegn, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Henok
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.1K#11,855
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—566#2,543
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—418#2,847
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020347—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019335—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018308—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017285—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016265—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015221—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014193—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013172—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2012149—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 98 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Henok?
We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Henok (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Henok have the most bearers?
Henok is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled henok.
How common is Henok compared with other names?
In Ethiopia, Henok is the 61st most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
Is Henok a male or female name?
Henok is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Henok” — the 61st most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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