Messiah
Messiah is ranked 203rd among boys in 2024 (1,734 births). Its best rank was 172nd, in 2021.
- Rank in 2024
- #203down 14 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,7340.10% of boys
- Peak year
- 20212,231 births
- Best rank
- #172in 2021
- Since 1973
- 26,397people given the name
The story in the numbers
25,371 boys have been named Messiah in the United States since 1973, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 2,231 births — 0.13% of all boys recorded that year.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 51%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,026 girls have also been given it, 3.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2021, its biggest year
Messiah was the 172nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.
Names that rose and fell with Messiah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kacepeak 2019
- Finnleypeak 2021
- Matteopeak 2024
- Bastianpeak 2024
- Odinpeak 2022
- Daxtonpeak 2019
- Huckpeak 2018
- Massiahpeak 2021
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.