Messiah

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #207 for boys in 2025, 1,666 births
Given to boys 96.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
#172
2021 · 2,231 births
Debut · boys
1973
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
27,064
since 1973

Messiah over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Messiah has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202000boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,1079#2071,666
2024#7,59414#2031,744
2023#7,64014#1891,916
2022#5,79321#1862,024
2021#4,16734#1722,231
2020#5,00325#1902,036
2019#5,30624#1932,037
2018#4,14434#2032,003
2017#3,76940#1981,987
2016#3,70741#2171,794
2015#3,29949#2431,516
2014#3,84839#2991,188
2013#3,91838#334974
2012#3,31449#388769
2011#3,09254#635369
2010#3,25650#647371
2009#3,12654#663369
2008#2,85562#699337
2007#2,75066#718322
2006#2,48574#799256
2005#3,58741#904198
2004#3,26546#1,152136
2003#4,30730#1,230118
2002#4,76725#1,288105
2001#6,95615#1,31699
2000#3,59136#1,228109
1999#4,31326#1,29494
1998#9,2609#2,09444
1997#10,8367#2,61330
1996#13,5185#3,02124
1995—#2,50030
1994#13,4305#4,29014
1993—#3,14121
1992—#2,99922
1991—#4,47612
1990—#7,1786
1989——
1988—#4,16211
1987—#6,0896
1986—#6,7215
1985—#4,3339
1984—#5,5616
1983——
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1981—#6,2625
1980—#3,83810
1979—#6,0565
1978—#5,7725
1977—#5,1236
1976—#4,9356
1975—#4,7976
1974—#3,8378
1973—#5,1015
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five boys were named Messiah! It came in at #5,101, and was given to 5 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1981–1983, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 4 spots since 2024 (#203 → #207)
  • 17 spots since 2020 (#190 → #207)
  • 36 spots since 2015 (#243 → #207)
  • Biggest jump: 248 spots in 2005 (#1,152 → #904)
  • Biggest drop: 14 spots in 2022 (#172 → #186)
Rise & fade · boys
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2021 at #172 (2,231 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 21 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 784
  • Highest: 1 in 784 boys born in 2021 were named Messiah (0.13%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,025 boys born in 2025 (0.10%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 48.1% of all boys named Messiah (13,008) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s41#3,837 (1974)#5,089
1980s52#3,838 (1980)#5,281
1990s297#1,294 (1999)#3,361
2000s2,049#663 (2009)#1,000
2010s13,008#193 (2019)#336
2020s11,617#172 (2021)#191

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Messiah in 2000

girls
#3,591
36 births · 1 in 50,445 girls
boys
#1,228
109 births · 1 in 18,018 boys

Top girls' names in 2000

  1. #1Emily25,959
  2. #2Hannah23,087
  3. #3Madison19,968
  4. #4Ashley18,000
  5. #5Sarah17,715
  6. #6Alexis17,631
  7. #7Samantha17,265
  8. #8Jessica15,711
  9. #9Elizabeth15,117
  10. #10Taylor15,080
  11. #3,591Messiah36

Top boys' names in 2000

  1. #1Jacob34,492
  2. #2Michael32,045
  3. #3Matthew28,580
  4. #4Joshua27,543
  5. #5Christopher24,936
  6. #6Nicholas24,653
  7. #7Andrew23,658
  8. #8Joseph22,844
  9. #9Daniel22,338
  10. #10Tyler21,506
  11. #1,228Messiah109
More about 2000

girls

1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 50,445 of them was named Messiah, which outranked 79.7% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Messiah
  1. #3,527Taysia37
  2. #3,527Tiyanna37
  3. #3,527Yakelin37
  4. #3,591Messiah36
  5. #3,591Abbygale36
  6. #3,591Aleshia36
  7. #3,591Alida36
  8. #3,664Aaron35
  9. #3,664Abegail35
  10. #3,664Aisling35

Tied with 72 names at #3,591; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1999
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,528Laisha#3,509 → #981
  2. ↑ 2,131Litzy#2,527 → #396
  3. ↑ 2,096Cielo#2,991 → #895
  4. ↑ 1,864Yamilet#2,703 → #839
  5. ↑ 1,775Nyah#2,567 → #792
Fallers
  1. ↓ 560Tatyanna#951 → #1,511
  2. ↓ 529Jailene#506 → #1,035
  3. ↓ 431Shanice#727 → #1,158
  4. ↓ 384Chantal#921 → #1,305
  5. ↓ 348Infant#658 → #1,006

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 18,018 of them was named Messiah, which outranked 89.9% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Messiah
  1. #1,220Matthias110
  2. #1,220Quinlan110
  3. #1,220Ramsey110
  4. #1,228Messiah109
  5. #1,228Chester109
  6. #1,228Deante109
  7. #1,228Dustyn109
  8. #1,235Baylor108
  9. #1,235Blair108
  10. #1,235Dameon108

Tied with 6 names at #1,228; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1999
Risers
  1. ↑ 4,806Maximus#5,656 → #850
  2. ↑ 2,950Elian#3,376 → #426
  3. ↑ 438Axel#799 → #361
  4. ↑ 437Luca#1,063 → #626
  5. ↑ 403Jevon#1,039 → #636
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,334Trajan#996 → #2,330
  2. ↓ 498Jordi#743 → #1,241
  3. ↓ 322Auston#931 → #1,253
  4. ↓ 298Tyreke#737 → #1,035
  5. ↓ 274Tahj#863 → #1,137

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2000 →