Menahem
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Hebrew name meaning 'comforter', occasionally used in Jewish communities
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/menahɛm/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Menahem is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 370K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 1.7M
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 144K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A Hebrew name meaning 'comforter', occasionally used in Jewish communities.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Menahem 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Menahem | 3 |
| FR France | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 372K | 425 | Menahem | 107 |
| US United States | 130 | 1 in 2.6M | 137 | — | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 35 | 1 in 6M | 35 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 21 | 1 in 1.8M | 21 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 4 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 2 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 1 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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)Menahem is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine hébraïque, signifie « le consolateur ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Menachem (o confortador); from Menachem, the comforter
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Comforter or Consoler
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In French, Hebrew menaḥem, ‘comforter’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Jewish: name meaning ‘comforter’ in Hebrew. It was borne in the Scriptures by an evil king of Israel who massacred pregnant women (2 Kings 15: 14–18), but the name has nevertheless always been a popular one among Jews; in earlier times it was given particularly to a child born after the death of a sibling and seen as a comfort to his parents. See also MENDEL . Variant: Menachem .
as a word
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)- Menahem Presslerb. 1923DEGerman-born American classical pianist
- Menahem E. Yaarib. 1935ILIsraeli economist
- Menahem Benb. 1948ILIsraeli poet (1948-2020)
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Menahem mean, and where does it come from?
- A Hebrew name meaning 'comforter', occasionally used in Jewish communities. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What are other forms of the name Menahem?
- In the etymology graph, Menachem, Manahem and Manaem are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Menahem?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /menahɛm/; in Spanish /menaem/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Menahem a male or female name?
- Menahem is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Menahem?
- Mondonomo estimates about 758 people named Menahem in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menahem. After it come France, United States, Brazil and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Menahem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 130 people named Menahem in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/menahemThe 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, “Menahem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.