Massiah
#2,221 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Massiah has been given to 1,544 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #2,221 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 124 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Massiah, 2025
1 in 51,800
Massiah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Massiah over time
In 2025, Massiah went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Massiah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 51,800
- 64 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 26,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,221
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 35,906 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Massiah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Massiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Massiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Massiah was born before 2018 — so the typical Massiah is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,451
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.2% of all recorded uses (743).
Is Massiah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −275
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −753
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −384
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.79×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 51.6%
- Peak was 2021 (124)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.4% average annual change
Spellings of Massiah
Massiah is not the most common spelling — Messiah is, with 48.4% against Massiah's 2.6%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Massiah is used
Across 2016–2025, Massiah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 20,494 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 8,333
- 2Florida1 in 9,091
- 3South Carolina1 in 10,000
- 4Alabama1 in 11,111
- 5Louisiana1 in 12,500
- 6Mississippi1 in 12,500
- 7Illinois1 in 14,286
- 8New York1 in 16,667
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Massiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Massiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Massiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.