Menachem
Menachem is a boy's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 1,038th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,084th. About 6,900 Menachems are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Menachem
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,063
- Estimated living today
- 6,900
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1,038th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,084th
- First recorded
- 1948
How old the living Menachems are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,063 babies given the name since 1948, about 6,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 3,400 of them are children and 50 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Menachems
- Menachem Begin (1913–1992)Israeli politician and former Prime Minister
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994)Russian-American Orthodox Jewish rabbi
- Menachem Bello (born 1947)Israeli footballer
- Menachem Ussishkin (1863–1941)Jewish politician
- Menachem Elon (1923–2013)Israeli High Court judge
- Menachem Avidom (1908–1995)Israeli composer of Polish descent
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859)Polish rabbi
- Menachem Porush (1916–2010)Israeli politician
People named Menachem with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Menachem is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Menachem is most concentrated in New York (9.2×), New Jersey (6.0×), Florida (1.2×), California (0.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Menachem peaked:
Menachem elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Menachem | 328 | 1,324th |
| France boys | Menachem | 70 | 4,934th |
| Switzerland boys | Menachem | 39 | 1,071st |
| Belgium boys | Menachem | 5 | 1,367th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Menachem: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Menachem | 39 | 0.003% | 822nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Menachem is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Menachem: rank by region
In 2023, Menachem was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Menachem | 879 | 5 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Menachem appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (319th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Menachem against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.