# Messiah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/messiah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 28,100 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 27,064 / 1,036 (4% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 168, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 54 | 3,121 |
| 2012 | 49 | 3,349 |
| 2013 | 38 | 3,979 |
| 2014 | 39 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 49 | 3,331 |
| 2016 | 41 | 3,755 |
| 2017 | 40 | 3,820 |
| 2018 | 34 | 4,213 |
| 2019 | 24 | 5,407 |
| 2020 | 25 | 5,125 |
| 2021 | 34 | 4,213 |
| 2022 | 21 | 5,908 |
| 2023 | 14 | 7,919 |
| 2024 | 14 | 7,840 |
| 2025 | 9 | 10,635 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 369 | 635 |
| 2012 | 769 | 388 |
| 2013 | 974 | 334 |
| 2014 | 1,188 | 299 |
| 2015 | 1,516 | 243 |
| 2016 | 1,794 | 217 |
| 2017 | 1,987 | 198 |
| 2018 | 2,003 | 203 |
| 2019 | 2,037 | 193 |
| 2020 | 2,036 | 190 |
| 2021 | 2,231 | 172 |
| 2022 | 2,024 | 186 |
| 2023 | 1,916 | 189 |
| 2024 | 1,744 | 203 |
| 2025 | 1,666 | 207 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2015 | 7 | 2,707 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,398 |
| 2018 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,534 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,675 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.