Pesach
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The Jewish festival of Passover
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈpeɪsɑːx/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Pesach is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
- ILIsrael≈1 in 11Kas פסח
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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈930 named פסח, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled פסח in IL Israel, PL Poland, RO Romania 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)The Jewish festival of Passover.
Cited for this meaning 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.
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"); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pesaḥ Finferb. 1837LTnot in their usual namerabbi (1837–1912)
- Pesach Kaplanb. 1870PLPolish teacher, musicologist, journalist, and translator (1870–1943)
- Tzvi Pesach Frankb. 1873ILrabbi of Jerusalem
- Pesach Oyerbakhb. 1877MDHebrew educator and author
- Liebmann Herschb. 1882CHnot in their usual nameLithuanian demographer
- Pessach Hebronib. 1888ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli mathematician and writer
- Pesaḥ Guṭmarkb. 1907ILnot in their usual nameJewish actor born in Poland, moved to Israel in 1949 and joined the Habima Theater in 1956
- Pesakh Rafaelovich Amnuélb. 1944RUnot in their usual nameIsraeli physicist
- Pesach Slaboskyb. 1947ILIsraeli painter (1947-2019)
- Pesach Shvartzmanb. 1954ILORCID 0000-0001-6496-1255
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)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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #378,855 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #372,279 |
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?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈpeɪsɑːx/ (Wiktionary); in Polish /pɛsax/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Pesach have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 927 people named פסח in Israel, 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 Israel holds more of our records for it.
- Is Pesach a male or female name?
- Pesach is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- 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 Israel, Pesach is the 686th most common given name of 107,303 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/pesachThe 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, “Pesach” — the 686th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.