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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Messiah is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#391 · 1 in 2,707
- South Carolina#419 · 1 in 2,356
- North Carolina#427 · 1 in 2,753
- New Jersey#613 · 1 in 5,215
- Pennsylvania#618 · 1 in 5,799
Best ever in a state: #45 in Mississippi, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #391 | 40 | 1 in 2,707 |
| South Carolina | #419 | 9 | 1 in 2,356 |
| North Carolina | #427 | 19 | 1 in 2,753 |
| New Jersey | #613 | 9 | 1 in 5,215 |
| Pennsylvania | #618 | 11 | 1 in 5,799 |
| Ohio | #765 | 8 | 1 in 8,191 |
| Florida | #808 | 13 | 1 in 7,615 |
| Michigan | #834 | 7 | 1 in 7,819 |
| Georgia | #849 | 8 | 1 in 7,464 |
| Virginia | #881 | 5 | 1 in 8,613 |
| Illinois | #953 | 8 | 1 in 9,644 |
| California | #1,117 | 16 | 1 in 15,885 |
| Texas | #1,664 | 7 | 1 in 25,873 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 45,069 of them was named Messiah, which outranked 81.3% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,509Zahria42
- #3,509Zaire42
- #3,509Zanya42
- #3,587Messiah41
- #3,587Ainslee41
- #3,587Amalie41
- #3,587Amiracle41
- #3,646Aicha40
- #3,646Aila40
- #3,646Amoni40
Tied with 58 names at #3,587; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 10,087 of them was named Messiah, which outranked 93.2% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).