Menachem — #1060 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Menachem

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,855 babies named Menachem between 1948 and 2024, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Menachem currently holds the #1060 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 212 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Menachem performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,880 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Menachem shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 4,238 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Menachem in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Menachem in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,855 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.