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Menachem

#1,088 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Menahem

Menachem has been given to 7,063 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #1,088 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 214 recorded.

Babies named Menachem, 2025

1 in 16,700

Menachem over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Menachem: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Menahem

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Menachem means

Menachem is a form of Menahem.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Menahem.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,063 boys were recorded with the name Menachem between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 214 in 2024; its best national rank was #832 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,032 in 2020 to #1,088 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,084 in 2015 to #1,088 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.

How common is Menachem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,700
198 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,630
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,088
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,607 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Menachem 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,607 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Menachem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Menachems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Menachem was born before 2007 — so the typical Menachem is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,049
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (1,880).

Is Menachem 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
−48
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−56
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.5%
Peak was 2024 (214)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#832
1994

Where Menachem is used

Across 2016–2025, Menachem was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 840 boys, against 1 in 4,271 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

1119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 840
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 962
  3. 3Florida1 in 9,091
  4. 4Maryland1 in 11,111
  5. 5California1 in 25,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 25,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

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.

Menachem around the world

Where Menachem 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
    1996–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #4,934
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Menachem

People whose public names include Menachem, 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.

Menachem in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Menachem. Linked forms have their own page here.

Menahem

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Menachem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,088
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 56
Best rank ever
#832
1994
Peak year
2024
214 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,063
Count in 2025
198

Names similar to Menachem

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

MendelMenasheMenelikMennoMendyHashemNuchemBeckhemAnthemMendellShemMengShahemIbrahemMensahMenaMayhemMendeeceeAbrahemMenphisMenzoMenelekMenashaHaithem

Names with a curve like Menachem

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

BilalSamiYisroelMustafaMordechaiEliezerSladeTajMikaelShlomoTorinAmar

Sibling names for Menachem

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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