Menachem is a distinctive choice, ranked #2089 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Menachem in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#2089
About the Name Menachem
Menachem is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 139 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #898 in 1996 โ and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Menachem is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school โ standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Menachem
Unlikely. With around 11 UK babies named Menachem per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Menachem in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Menachem is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 139 places over the last five years to #2089 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Menachem is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Menachem include: Menachem Ziemba โ Rabbi Menachem Ziemba (Hebrew: ืื ืื ืืืื) was a distinguished pre-World War II Rabbi, known as a Talmudic genius and prodigy.; Menachem Genack โ Rabbi Menachem Genack is an Orthodox rabbi and the CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division, a supervisory organization of kosher foods.; Menachem Mendel Hager โ Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager is one of the two Grand Rabbis of the Viznitz (Admor Mviznitz) Hasidic dynasty in Bnei Brak and a current member of Moetzes Gedolei....
Menachem does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice โ your child is unlikely to encounter American Menachems in the wild.
11
UK babies named Menachem (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 139 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Menachem
Likely around 1 other Menachem in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
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Rabbi Menachem Ziemba (Hebrew: ืื ืื ืืืื) was a distinguished pre-World War II Rabbi, known as a Talmudic genius and prodigy. He is known to be fluent in all of Talmud as well as many of the works of the later Rabbis such as Rabbi Joseph Rosen and Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk.
Rabbi Menachem Genack is an Orthodox rabbi and the CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division, a supervisory organization of kosher foods. As such he oversees the kosher certification of over 1.3 million products and over 14,000 facilities in 104 countries.
Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, also known as Menachem Mendel of Horodok, was an early leader of Hasidic Judaism. Part of the third generation of Hassidic leaders, he was the primary disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch.
Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician who founded Herut and Likud and served as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. Before the creation of the state of Israel, Begin was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah.
Menachem Nochum Twersky, also known as the Me'or Einayim (Hebrew: ืืืืจ ืขืื ืืื), was a Ukrainian rabbi, and the founder of the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty. He was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mezritch, and published one of the first works of Hasidic thought.
Menachem Ussishkin (Russian: ะะฒัะฐะฐะผ ะะตะฝะฐั ะตะผ ะะตะฝะดะป ะฃัััะบะธะฝ Avraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, Hebrew: ืื ืื ืืืกืืฉืงืื; August 14, 1863 โ October 2, 1941) was a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager is one of the two Grand Rabbis of the Viznitz (Admor Mviznitz) Hasidic dynasty in Bnei Brak and a current member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of great Torah Sages) of the Agudat Yisrael movement.