Mussiah
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Mussiah by the numbers
Mussiah was given to 5 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 Mussiah
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 Mussiah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Messiahanointed one; the savior2,009 in the US (2017)
- Massiahthe anointed one; form of Messiah116 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)
- Messiyahthe anointed one; messiah15 in the US (2017)
- Messiasthe anointed one; messiah6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Mussiah
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