Pesach

given name · Latin script

Meaning: The Jewish festival of Passover

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pɛsək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pesach is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 11Kas פסח(inferred from the name graph)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 12Kas פסח
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M

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 Pesach 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.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,900 named פסח, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
35 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PesachLatin(measured from records)
פסחHebrew(measured from records)

Locally spelled פסח in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 3 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)

The Jewish festival of Passover.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pesach 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.

Where Pesach is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#565≈1,900 est.≈1 in 11K—פסח5
IL Israel#686≈740 est.≈1 in 12K1.1Kפסח35
LB Lebanon#750≈280 est.≈1 in 19K—פסח1
US United States—1971 in 1.7M192פסח31
LV Latvia—≈150 est.≈1 in 13K—פסח3
BG Bulgaria—≈100 est.≈1 in 69K—פסח3

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. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pesach is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Israel

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Песах, Pesah, Pesakh, Pesaḥ, Песач

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Pesaḥ Finfer, b. 1837Pesach Kaplan, b. 1870Tzvi Pesach Frank, b. 1873Pesach Oyerbakh, b. 1877Liebmann Hersch, b. 1882Pessach Hebroni, b. 1888Pesaḥ Guṭmark, b. 1907Pesakh Rafaelovich Amnuél, b. 1944Pesach Slabosky, b. 1947Pesach Shvartzman, b. 1954

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalשלום Pesach,Hi Pesach, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Pesach mean, and where does it come from?
The Jewish festival of Passover. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pesach?
A machine transcription gives /pɛsək/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
Is Pesach a male or female name?
Pesach is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Pesach have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named פסח in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pesach most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pesach is densest in the United States — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pesach?
In the United States, the national register counted 197 people named Pesach in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
How common is Pesach compared with other names?
In Romania, Pesach is the 565th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.

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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, “Pesach” — the 565th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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