Masiah
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ma-SY-ah
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #2,258 for boys
Masiah is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “anointed one”. In 2025 it ranked 2,258th for boys in the US (62 babies).
What does Masiah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Messiah
“anointed one”
A respelling of Messiah, from Hebrew mashiach, the anointed deliverer of Jewish hope, identified with Jesus by Christians.
Is Masiah a girl's or a boy's name?
Masiah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 62 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Masiah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,258among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 62about 1 in 28,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 62 boys in the US were named Masiah, making it the 2,258th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,798th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 105 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the boys named Masiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 148 boys in the US were given Masiah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,183, up from #2,258 for this spelling alone.
Girls were 39% of the babies named Masiah in the US in 2009, and 8% in 2019.
Masiah in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,258 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,559 |
| 2023 | 78 | #1,969 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,642 |
| 2021 | 76 | #1,963 |
| 2020 | 83 | #1,798 |
| 2019 | 87 | #1,777 |
| 2018 | 95 | #1,671 |
| 2017 | 77 | #1,883 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,047 |
| 2015 | 74 | #1,955 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,173 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,224 |
| 2012 | 41 | #2,867 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,657 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,516 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,427 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,897 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,431 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,299 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,421 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,202 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,132 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
Names like Masiah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa Muhammad Asaiah Zamir Ibrahim Azaiah Abdullah Azariah Asiah Mustafa Zahir Zayd
Other spellings of Masiah
Names related to Masiah
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Masiah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/masiah, updated 20 October 2026.