How rare is the name Menachem?

4,810 people in the United States have the first name Menachem, about 1 in 62,792. It ranks #4,031 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

MENACHEM

#4,031

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,810
About
1 in 62,792
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,810 people named Menachem, 97% reported their origin as White and 1.2% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Menachem peaked in 2024, when 214 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19482025
Peak year
2024
Births that year
214
In 2025*
198 ▼7%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 7,063 babies have been given the name since 1948. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Menachem by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #2,213. The largest share of babies named Menachem, 37.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#10,21514
1950s#8,27447
1960s#6,54298
1970s#3,953316
1980s#3,115575
1990s#2,3991,195
2000s#2,2801,715
2010s#2,2981,880
2020s#2,2131,223
Baby boom 1946–641.4%
Generation X 1965–805.7%
Millennials 1981–9619.3%
Generation Z 1997–1237.7%
2013 and later36%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Menachem is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Menachem has been most common in New York (9.2×), New Jersey (6×), and Florida (1.2×), and least common in Illinois (0.2×).

6,054 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Menachem

1 other first name also has 4,810 people.

#4,031 Cedrick · 4,810

Either side of Menachem

#4,030 Evalyn · 4,812#4,031 Cedrick · 4,810#4,033 Kayle · 4,809#4,034 Bryana · 4,808

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