Messiyah
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- meh-SY-uh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Messiyah is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “anointed one”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Messiyah mean?
Hebrew: variant of Messiah
“anointed one”
A spelling of Messiah, from Hebrew mashiach 'anointed one'.
Is Messiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Messiyah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Messiyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,906among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Messiyah, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the boys named Messiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Messiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,215 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,557 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,447 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,486 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
Names like Messiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa Asaiah Muhammad Azaiah Zamir Ibrahim Mouhamed Abdullah Zahir Zayd Asiah Mustafa
Names related to Messiyah
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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, “Messiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/messiyah, updated 20 October 2026.