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Menachem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 198 in 2025. Its best rank was #834 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #834 in 1994; #1,088 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Menachem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,088 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #834.
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Menachem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 198 boys in 2025. Peak: #834 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 214 (2024).
In 2025, 198 US boys were named Menachem, making it the 1,088th most common boys’ name of the year, down 48 places from #1,040 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 214 boys named Menachem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #834, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 214, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,084 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Menachem in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 9 babies. In all, 7,063 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,880 babies named Menachem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,983 US boys were named Menachem; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 214. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,627 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Menachem ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #203 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 98 | #203 | #191 |
| New Jersey | 47 | #205 | #268 |
| Maryland | 5 | #881 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,105 | #827 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 198 | #1,088 |
| 2024 | — | — | 214 | #1,040 |
| 2023 | — | — | 201 | #1,077 |
| 2022 | — | — | 208 | #1,060 |
| 2021 | — | — | 203 | #1,056 |
| 2020 | — | — | 199 | #1,032 |
| 2019 | — | — | 171 | #1,141 |
| 2018 | — | — | 190 | #1,066 |
| 2017 | — | — | 195 | #1,034 |
| 2016 | — | — | 204 | #1,003 |
| 2015 | — | — | 181 | #1,084 |
| 2014 | — | — | 212 | #984 |
| 2013 | — | — | 164 | #1,114 |
| 2012 | — | — | 170 | #1,100 |
| 2011 | — | — | 183 | #1,038 |
| 2010 | — | — | 210 | #955 |
| 2009 | — | — | 200 | #989 |
| 2008 | — | — | 169 | #1,098 |
| 2007 | — | — | 204 | #969 |
| 2006 | — | — | 193 | #968 |
| 2005 | — | — | 181 | #965 |
| 2004 | — | — | 166 | #998 |
| 2003 | — | — | 165 | #974 |
| 2002 | — | — | 155 | #1,006 |
| 2001 | — | — | 157 | #980 |
| 2000 | — | — | 125 | #1,124 |
| 1999 | — | — | 123 | #1,091 |
| 1998 | — | — | 115 | #1,121 |
| 1997 | — | — | 144 | #939 |
| 1996 | — | — | 138 | #944 |
| 1995 | — | — | 142 | #933 |
| 1994 | — | — | 164 | #834 |
| 1993 | — | — | 83 | #1,252 |
| 1992 | — | — | 105 | #1,073 |
| 1991 | — | — | 85 | #1,207 |
| 1990 | — | — | 96 | #1,094 |
| 1989 | — | — | 80 | #1,202 |
| 1988 | — | — | 64 | #1,291 |
| 1987 | — | — | 55 | #1,356 |
| 1986 | — | — | 61 | #1,238 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,343 |
| 1984 | — | — | 62 | #1,161 |
| 1983 | — | — | 58 | #1,197 |
| 1982 | — | — | 61 | #1,186 |
| 1981 | — | — | 57 | #1,218 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,153 |
| 1979 | — | — | 49 | #1,334 |
| 1978 | — | — | 49 | #1,295 |
| 1977 | — | — | 36 | #1,563 |
| 1976 | — | — | 45 | #1,329 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,440 |
| 1974 | — | — | 28 | #1,734 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,761 |
| 1972 | — | — | 16 | #2,391 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,651 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,469 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,637 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,941 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,097 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,914 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,917 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,500 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,239 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,032 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,635 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,765 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,192 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,424 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,700 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,358 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,046 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,726 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).