Messiah
For 2025 the count puts Messiah at #207 nationwide, and it is easing off its peak. The record does not even know it before 1973; since then, 27,064 American children.
Messiah’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Messiah, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Messiah since 1973
Messiah peaked in 2021 at #172; #207 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Messiah is most common
Messiah is most common in District of Columbia: 0.51% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Mississippi (0.33%) and South Carolina (0.25%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Messiah
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Maddox
#210 in 2025
Myla
#210 in 2025
Miguel
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Maxwell
#189 in 2025
Maisie
#233 in 2025 · Greek
Milan
#242 in 2025 · Greek
Matias
#170 in 2025
Matteo
#146 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Messiah
How popular is the name Messiah?
For 2025 the count puts Messiah at #207 nationwide, and it is easing off its peak. The full curve since 1973 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Messiah mean?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Messiah. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
Which names sit near Messiah?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Maddox sits closest, with Myla and Miguel just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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