Menashe

#4,638 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Manasseh

Menashe has been given to 438 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #4,638 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Menashe, 2025

1 in 151,000

Menashe over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Menashe: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Manasseh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Menashe means

Menashe is a form of Manasseh.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Menashe → Manasseh. The family’s meaning is “causing to forget”, recorded in the naming reference for Manasseh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Manasseh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 438 boys were recorded with the name Menashe between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,211 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,891 in 2020 to #4,638 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,650 in 2015 to #4,638 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Menashe?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 151,000; 22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 77,600; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #4,638; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 104,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Menashe 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Menashe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Menashes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Menashe was born before 2013 — so the typical Menashe is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 79.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 438; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (157).

Is Menashe 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: +180; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +2,253; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +12; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.05×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 91.7%; Peak was 2014 (24)
Years since peak: 11; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,211; 2014

Spellings of Menashe

Menashe is not the most common spelling — Menachem is, with 94.2% against Menashe's 5.8%.

Menachem94.2%7,063
Menashe5.8%438

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 Menashe is used

Across 1910–2025, Menashe was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 68,408 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 50,000
2New Jersey1 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. Menashe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Menashe around the world

Where Menashe 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
2015–2022
#4,002
in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Menashe by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #4,638
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 2,253
Best rank ever: #4,211; 2014
Peak year: 2014; 24 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 438
Count in 2025: 22

Names similar to Menashe

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

Menelik Mendy Mendel Menno Mendell Moishe Menachem Meng Ashe Kashe Mensah Mena Menphis Menzo Menelek Menasha Cashe Mendeecee Mendal Menua Moshe Tinashe Zishe Menas

Sibling names for Menashe

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

For a sister

Kendyl Anabel Adelle Annabell Hayleigh Shaniya Leigha Karleigh

For a brother

Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Gavyn Brennen Caesar Hamilton Jamarcus

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