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
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 2,231 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 27,064since 1973
Messiah over time
Rank among boys' names. Messiah has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #207 | 1,666 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #203 | 1,744 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #189 | 1,916 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #186 | 2,024 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 | #172 | 2,231 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | #190 | 2,036 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #193 | 2,037 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 | #203 | 2,003 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | #198 | 1,987 |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 | #217 | 1,794 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 | #243 | 1,516 |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 | #299 | 1,188 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 | #334 | 974 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 | #388 | 769 |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 | #635 | 369 |
| 2010 | #3,256 | 50 | #647 | 371 |
| 2009 | #3,126 | 54 | #663 | 369 |
| 2008 | #2,855 | 62 | #699 | 337 |
| 2007 | #2,750 | 66 | #718 | 322 |
| 2006 | #2,485 | 74 | #799 | 256 |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 | #904 | 198 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 | #1,152 | 136 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 | #1,230 | 118 |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 | #1,288 | 105 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #1,316 | 99 |
| 2000 | #3,591 | 36 | #1,228 | 109 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | #1,294 | 94 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #2,094 | 44 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | — | #2,500 | 30 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | — | #3,141 | 21 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,999 | 22 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,476 | 12 | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
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| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,837 | 8 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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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.
See more about Messiah
- 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)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2021 at #172 (2,231 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 784 boys born in 2021 were named Messiah (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,025 boys born in 2025 (0.10%)
- 48.1% of all boys named Messiah (13,008) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 41 | #3,837 (1974) | #5,089 |
| 1980s | 52 | #3,838 (1980) | #5,281 |
| 1990s | 297 | #1,294 (1999) | #3,361 |
| 2000s | 2,049 | #663 (2009) | #1,000 |
| 2010s | 13,008 | #193 (2019) | #336 |
| 2020s | 11,617 | #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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 78,101 of them was named Messiah, which outranked 67.4% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,638Yeimi22
- #5,638Zelena22
- #5,638Zoraya22
- #5,793Messiah21
- #5,793Aadvika21
- #5,793Aariah21
- #5,793Adalida21
- #5,984Aasiyah20
- #5,984Addley20
- #5,984Adel20
Tied with 190 names at #5,793; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 863 of them was named Messiah, which outranked 98.7% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.