Menashe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Biblical male personal name Menashe (Hebrew form; see Manasse)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Menashe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2Kas מנשה(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 9.2Kas מנשה
- PLPoland1 in 3.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Menashe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 named מנשה, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled מנשה in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Biblical male personal name Menashe (Hebrew form; see Manasse).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Menashe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #714 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | מנשה | 3 |
| IL Israel | #229 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 4.4K | מנשה | 70 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Menashe | 3 |
| RO Romania | #573 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | מנשה | 2 |
| US United States | — | 541as Manasseh | 1 in 615K | 479 | Menashe | 94 |
| LB Lebanon | #693 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | מנשה | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 12 | 1 in 3.2M | 12 | מנשה | 3 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ari Ben-Menasheb. 1951IRIranian-born Israeli businessman, security consultant and author
- Doron Menasheb. 1964ILresearcher and lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the University of Haifa
- Oded Menasheb. 1969ILIsraeli actor
- Ori MenasheILIsraeli chef
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 283 | #73,776 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 282 | #69,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 225 | #78,838 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #230,165 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Menashe mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Biblical male personal name Menashe (Hebrew form; see Manasse). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Menashe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named מנשה in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Menashe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Menashe is densest in Poland — about 1 in 3.2 million people — even though Ethiopia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Menashe?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12 people named Menashe in 2026, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
- How common is Menashe compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Menashe is the 714th most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/menasheThe 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, “Menashe” — the 714th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.