Menachem

Where Menachem comes from

Menachem hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1902
    Menachem Mendel Schneerson born
    Russian-American Orthodox Jewish rabbi
  2. 1913
    Menachem Begin born
    Israeli politician and former Prime Minister
  3. 1948
    First appearance
    #2,608 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1994
    Peak, #831
    164 babies named Menachem — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Menachem Begin · Israeli politician and former Prime Minister, 1913–1992
  • Menachem Mendel Schneerson · Russian-American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, 1902–1994
  • Menachem Ussishkin · Jewish politician, 1863–1941
  • Menachem Bello · Israeli footballer, born 1947
  • Menachem Elon · Israeli High Court judge, 1923–2013

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.