Menachem
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hebrew: comforter, consoler
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Menachem is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 69K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 660K
- NLNetherlands1 in 720K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Menachem itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 named מנחם, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled מנחם in IL Israel, PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hebrew: comforter, consoler
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Menachem counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #59 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 702 | 4.6K | מנחם | 88 |
| US United States | — | 4,810 | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Menachem | 184 |
| PL Poland | — | 58 | 1 in 660K | 58 | מנחם | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 35as Menahem | 1 in 6M | 35 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 24 | 1 in 720K | 24 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Menachem is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Menahem: aus der Bibel übernommener männl. Vom. hebräischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Menachem HaMeirib. 1249FRCatalan rabbi, Talmudist and Maimonidean
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzkb. 1787PLPolish rabbi
- Menachem Mendel Schneersonb. 1902USRussian-American Orthodox Jewish rabbi (1902–1994)
- Menachem Beginb. 1913ILIsraeli politician and former Prime Minister (1913–1992)
- Menachem Savidorb. 1917ILIsraeli politician (1917-1988)
- Menahem Presslerb. 1923DEnot in their usual nameGerman-born American classical pianist
- Menahem Golanb. 1929ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli film director and producer (1929–2014)
- Menahem E. Yaarib. 1935ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli economist
- Menachem Magidorb. 1946ILIsraeli mathematician
- Itay Shechterb. 1987ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli association footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #4,031 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 198 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 58 | #3,013 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 54 | #2,971 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #101,516 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 24 | #10,474 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #40,825 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 7 | #35,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #4,031 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Menachem mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew: comforter, consoler Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Menachem?
- In the etymology graph, Menahem and Manahem are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Menachem a male or female name?
- Menachem is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Menachem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named מנחם in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Menachem most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Menachem is densest in the United States — about 1 in 69 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Menachem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,810 people named Menachem in 2020, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
- How common is Menachem compared with other names?
- In Israel, Menachem is the 59th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Menachem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/menachemThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Menachem” — the 59th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.