Menachem
#1,084 for boys in 2025, 198 births
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 164 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,063since 1948
Menachem over time
Rank among boys' names. Menachem has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,084 | 198 |
| 2024 | #1,038 | 214 |
| 2023 | #1,073 | 201 |
| 2022 | #1,057 | 208 |
| 2021 | #1,054 | 203 |
| 2020 | #1,031 | 199 |
| 2019 | #1,136 | 171 |
| 2018 | #1,064 | 190 |
| 2017 | #1,029 | 195 |
| 2016 | #999 | 204 |
| 2015 | #1,082 | 181 |
| 2014 | #983 | 212 |
| 2013 | #1,112 | 164 |
| 2012 | #1,095 | 170 |
| 2011 | #1,037 | 183 |
| 2010 | #953 | 210 |
| 2009 | #988 | 200 |
| 2008 | #1,095 | 169 |
| 2007 | #967 | 204 |
| 2006 | #963 | 193 |
| 2005 | #964 | 181 |
| 2004 | #995 | 166 |
| 2003 | #972 | 165 |
| 2002 | #1,003 | 155 |
| 2001 | #978 | 157 |
| 2000 | #1,121 | 125 |
| 1999 | #1,086 | 123 |
| 1998 | #1,114 | 115 |
| 1997 | #937 | 144 |
| 1996 | #942 | 138 |
| 1995 | #931 | 142 |
| 1994 | #831 | 164 |
| 1993 | #1,248 | 83 |
| 1992 | #1,068 | 105 |
| 1991 | #1,202 | 85 |
| 1990 | #1,086 | 96 |
| 1989 | #1,197 | 80 |
| 1988 | #1,286 | 64 |
| 1987 | #1,337 | 55 |
| 1986 | #1,227 | 61 |
| 1985 | #1,333 | 52 |
| 1984 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1983 | #1,190 | 58 |
| 1982 | #1,179 | 61 |
| 1981 | #1,207 | 57 |
| 1980 | #2,110 | 25 |
| 1979 | #1,319 | 49 |
| 1978 | #1,286 | 49 |
| 1977 | #1,546 | 36 |
| 1976 | #1,320 | 45 |
| 1975 | #1,429 | 38 |
| 1974 | #1,692 | 28 |
| 1973 | #1,736 | 26 |
| 1972 | #2,323 | 16 |
| 1971 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #2,399 | 15 |
| 1969 | #2,549 | 12 |
| 1968 | #1,894 | 18 |
| 1967 | #2,030 | 15 |
| 1966 | #2,784 | 9 |
| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
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| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #2,535 | 11 |
| 1959 | #2,663 | 10 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,216 | 7 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #3,176 | 7 |
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| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
| 1948 | #2,608 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Menachem! It came in at #2,608, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1953, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Menachem
- 46 spots since 2024 (#1,038 → #1,084)
- 53 spots since 2020 (#1,031 → #1,084)
- 2 spots since 2015 (#1,082 → #1,084)
- Biggest jump: 417 spots in 1994 (#1,248 → #831)
- Biggest drop: 177 spots in 1998 (#937 → #1,114)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1994 at #831 (164 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2003–2007
- Highest: 1 in 8,051 boys born in 2024 were named Menachem (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,627 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #831 in 1994, was only 1 in 11,781 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.6% of all boys named Menachem (1,880) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 14 | #2,608 (1948) | #3,149 |
| 1950s | 47 | #2,558 (1955) | #3,107 |
| 1960s | 98 | #1,894 (1968) | #2,644 |
| 1970s | 316 | #1,286 (1978) | #1,761 |
| 1980s | 575 | #1,154 (1984) | #1,322 |
| 1990s | 1,195 | #831 (1994) | #1,045 |
| 2000s | 1,715 | #963 (2006) | #1,005 |
| 2010s | 1,880 | #953 (2010) | #1,049 |
| 2020s | 1,223 | #1,031 (2020) | #1,056 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Menachem in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 11,972 of them was named Menachem, which outranked 92.4% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).