Menelik — #6947 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Menelik

The Social Security Administration has registered 386 babies named Menelik between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Menelik currently holds the #6947 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Menelik performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Menelik shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Menelik in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Menelik 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 386 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.