Menashe

boys:

392 births since 1978

#4194 (8th percentile)

overall:

392 births since 1978

#7347 (5th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Menashe is the #7,347 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 392 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 5.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,194 (8.5% percentile) for all time with 392 births since 1978.

Menashe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (first recorded for boys in 1978). Birth data for Menashe is available in 36 out of the 46 years between 1978 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, Menashe reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #885) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Menashe is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #895 (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Menashe".

1978 2023 19782023

Key Statistics

Total Births
392
Peak Births
24
Peak Year
2014
First Recorded
1978
Peak Percentile
2.1%
Current Percentile
1.8%
Peak Rank
#885
Current Rank
#895
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Menashe

Our model has identified 18 different pronunciations for the name Menashe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 17.9% confident that Menashe is pronounced as MEH-nuhsh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-NAH-sheh, at 10.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.

MEH-nuhsh (2 syllables)
17.9% confidence
M EH1 N AH0 SH
meh-NAH-sheh (3 syllables)
10.3% confidence
M EH0 N AA1 SH EH0
muh-NAH-sheh (3 syllables)
7.7% confidence
M AH0 N AA1 SH EH0
meh-NUH-shee (3 syllables)
7.7% confidence
M EH0 N AH1 SH IY0
muh-NAH-shuh (3 syllables)
7.7% confidence
M AH0 N AA1 SH AH0
mih-NUH-shee (3 syllables)
5.1% confidence
M IH0 N AH1 SH IY0
muh-NUH-shee (3 syllables)
5.1% confidence
M AH0 N AH1 SH IY0
meh-NA-sheh (3 syllables)
5.1% confidence
M EH0 N AE1 SH EH0
muh-NAHSH (2 syllables)
5.1% confidence
M AH0 N AA1 SH
meh-NAHSH (2 syllables)
5.1% confidence
M EH0 N AA1 SH
muh-NA-sheh (3 syllables)
5.1% confidence
M AH0 N AE1 SH EH0
meh-NAH-shee (3 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M EH0 N AA1 SH IY0
muh-NA-shuh (3 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M AH0 N AE1 SH AH0
meh-NA-shuh (3 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M EH0 N AE1 SH AH0
meh-NUHSH (2 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M EH0 N AH1 SH
meh-NAH-shuh (3 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M EH0 N AA1 SH AH0
muh-NUHSH (2 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M AH0 N AH1 SH
muh-nash (2 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M AH0 N AE0 SH

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M EH1 N AH0 SH) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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