Meaning not yet researched.
Messiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,666 in 2025. Its best rank was #172 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #172 in 2021; #207 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Messiah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#207 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #172.
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Messiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,666 boys in 2025. Peak: #172 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 2,231 (2021).
In 2025, 1,666 US boys were named Messiah, making it the 207th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4 places from #203 in 2024. That is 78 fewer than the 1,744 boys named Messiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #172, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,231. For comparison, it was #243 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Messiah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 28,100 US babies have been given the name, 3.7% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 13,426 babies named Messiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,438 US boys were named Messiah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 2,231. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,025 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Messiah ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #64 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Mesiah, Messi and Meziah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mesiah (507), Messi (207), Meziah (164), Messiyah (159), Mezziah (87), Mesiyah (69), Measia (56), Messyah (40), Myasiah (30), Mesyah (16), Myssiah (13), Mesziah (10), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Messiah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 13 | #64 | #164 |
| Mississippi | 36 | #67 | #134 |
| Georgia | 123 | #91 | #108 |
| South Carolina | 53 | #97 | #97 |
| Alabama | 52 | #103 | #208 |
| Louisiana | 39 | #128 | #158 |
| Michigan | 76 | #130 | #219 |
| Nevada | 22 | #146 | #350 |
| Florida | 146 | #150 | #172 |
| North Carolina | 87 | #151 | #143 |
| Connecticut | 22 | #161 | #272 |
| Maryland | 35 | #175 | #181 |
| Virginia | 46 | #196 | #164 |
| Illinois | 59 | #201 | #169 |
| Ohio | 63 | #207 | #262 |
| Texas | 185 | #212 | #275 |
| Pennsylvania | 59 | #214 | #248 |
| Tennessee | 42 | #216 | #367 |
| Missouri | 32 | #225 | #275 |
| Massachusetts | 27 | #228 | #277 |
| Arkansas | 16 | #229 | #325 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #230 | #254 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #241 | #259 |
| Indiana | 34 | #245 | #366 |
| New York | 77 | #251 | #188 |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #303 | #230 |
| California | 113 | #321 | #444 |
| New Jersey | 27 | #322 | #189 |
| Arizona | 23 | #340 | #418 |
| Minnesota | 17 | #351 | #453 |
| Kansas | 10 | #376 | #291 |
| Colorado | 17 | #380 | #578 |
| Iowa | 9 | #391 | #371 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #397 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #483 | #416 |
| Washington | 12 | #593 | #510 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,635 | 1,666 | #207 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,840 | 1,744 | #203 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,919 | 1,916 | #189 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,908 | 2,024 | #186 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,213 | 2,231 | #172 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,125 | 2,036 | #190 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,407 | 2,037 | #193 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,213 | 2,003 | #203 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,820 | 1,987 | #198 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,755 | 1,794 | #217 |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,331 | 1,516 | #243 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,895 | 1,188 | #299 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,979 | 974 | #334 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,349 | 769 | #388 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,121 | 369 | #635 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,291 | 371 | #649 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,152 | 369 | #665 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,878 | 337 | #700 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,775 | 322 | #718 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,502 | 256 | #800 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,628 | 198 | #905 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,308 | 136 | #1,156 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,383 | 118 | #1,231 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,852 | 105 | #1,293 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,201 | 99 | #1,323 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,637 | 109 | #1,232 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,411 | 94 | #1,300 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,832 | 44 | #2,117 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,659 | 30 | #2,660 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,030 | 24 | #3,078 |
| 1995 | — | — | 30 | #2,537 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,927 | 14 | #4,455 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,212 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,076 |
| 1991 | — | — | 12 | #4,667 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,771 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,359 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,669 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,446 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,561 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,075 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,929 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #4,034 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,720 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,447 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,601 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,376 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,229 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,063 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,610 |
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).