Mesiah
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 39 babies a year in the US.
Mesiah by the numbers
Mesiah was given to 39 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Mesiah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mesiah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Messiahanointed one; the savior2,009 in the US (2017)
- Masiahthe anointed one; variant of Messiah82 in the US (2017)
- Mosiahthe anointed one; a variant of Messiah44 in the US (2017)
- Meziah9 in the US (2017)
- Massiahthe anointed one; form of Messiah116 in the US (2017)
- Makiahwho is like God; a variant of Micaiah61 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Mesiah
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