Messiah

Where Messiah comes from

Messiah hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #5,101 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1984
    Messiah Hallberg born
    Swedish actor, comedian, journalist and television presenter
  3. 2021
    Peak, #172
    2,231 babies named Messiah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Messiah Hallberg · Swedish actor, comedian, journalist and television presenter, born 1984

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.