Enos

Where Enos comes from

From Hebrew אֱנוֹשׁ (enósh, “mortal man”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Enos
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1784
    Enos Thompson Throop born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #482 among boys — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1885
    Peak, #355
    24 babies named Enos — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #516.
  5. 1949
    Enos Cabell born
    American baseball player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Namesakes
  • Enos Thompson Throop · American politician, 1784–1874
  • Enos Cabell · American baseball player, born 1949
  • Enos Hook · American politician, 1804–1841
  • Enos Nkala · Zimbabwean politician, 1932–2013
  • Enos H. Nebeker · Treasurer of the United States, 1836–1913

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.