Menachem
Menachem was given to 198 boys in 2025, #1,088 among boys’ names; 7,063 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,870 Americans named Menachem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Menachem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Menachem?
#1,088 among boys’ names, 2025
Menachem fell from #1,084 in 2015 to #1,088 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.09 to 0.12 per 1,000.
214 babies in 2024, the peak
Menachem peaked in 2024, when 214 boys were given it, #1,040 among boys’ names. The 198 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 198 | #1,088 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 214 | #1,040 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 201 | #1,077 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 208 | #1,060 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 203 | #1,056 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 199 | #1,032 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,141 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 190 | #1,066 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 195 | #1,034 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 204 | #1,003 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 181 | #1,084 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 212 | #984 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 164 | #1,114 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 170 | #1,100 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 183 | #1,038 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 210 | #955 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 200 | #989 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,098 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 204 | #969 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 193 | #968 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 181 | #964 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 166 | #997 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 165 | #973 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 155 | #1,005 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 157 | #979 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 125 | #1,122 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 123 | #1,089 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,118 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 144 | #937 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 138 | #942 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 142 | #930 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 164 | #832 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 83 | #1,247 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 105 | #1,070 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,201 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 96 | #1,090 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,198 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,354 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 52 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,160 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 58 | #1,197 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 49 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 36 | #1,563 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,329 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 38 | #1,440 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,734 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,761 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,391 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,650 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,468 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,636 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,940 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,096 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,913 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,916 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,238 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,634 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,347 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,423 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,725 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Menachem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Menachem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Menachem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Menachem, and how old are they?
6,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 7,063 Americans ever recorded as Menachem. The median Menachem alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 4,810 people named Menachem (5 women and girls, 4,805 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,755 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 67 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 362 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,520 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Menachem born?
The states with the most babies named Menachem are New York, New Jersey and Florida, with 97% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 98 | #203 | 9.6× |
| New Jersey | 47 | #205 | 5.0× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,105 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 5 | #881 | 0.3× |
Where Menachem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Menachem is most over-represented in New York: since 1948 it was given 9.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Menachem with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Menachem
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Menachem and names like it
- Compare Menachem and BilalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Menachem since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Menachem.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Menachem alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.