boys:
6.6k births since 1948
#1442 (69th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1948
#3309 (57th percentile)
The name Menachem is the #3,309 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,635 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 57.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,442 (68.6% percentile) for all time with 6,635 births since 1948.
Menachem first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (first recorded for boys in 1948). Birth data for Menachem is available in 71 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Menachem reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 23.0% percentile (ranked #678) with 102 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 111 births per million (ranked 21.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Menachem ranks #729 for boys (20.0% percentile) with 102 births per million, which is 92.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Menachem".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Menachem. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.7% confident that Menachem is pronounced as meh-NAH-kehm, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-nuh-hehm, at 21.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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