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Meshach

#10,327 in 2025Boys' name

Sheep, ram

Meshach has been given to 572 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #10,327 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Meshach, 2025

1 in 474,000

Meshach over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meshach: meaning, origin, and history

Sheep, ram

Hebrew

What Meshach means

Meshach means “sheep, ram”, associated with mayšáh.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Biblical Hebrew מישך (myšk /⁠mēšak⁠/), from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *mayšáh (“sheep, ram”) with the hypocoristic suffix *-akah.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Meshach (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Meshach is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Meshach comes through Biblical Hebrew מישך and Proto-Iranian *mayšáh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Meshach is pronounced /ˈmi.ʃæk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 572 boys were recorded with the name Meshach between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,426 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,503 in 2020 to #10,327 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,194 in 2015 to #10,327 in 2025.

How common is Meshach?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,327
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meshach sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meshach. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meshachs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meshach was born before 2000 — so the typical Meshach is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
572
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (211).

Is Meshach 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
−3,962
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,824
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,133
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.9%
Peak was 1994 (32)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,426
1994

Spellings of Meshach

Meshach is the most-used spelling, taking 53.3% of the 1,074 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Meshach is used

Across 1910–2025, Meshach was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 775,226 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Meshach has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meshach around the world

Where Meshach ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2005
    #2,303
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1999–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Meshach by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,327
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,824
Best rank ever
#2,426
1994
Peak year
1994
32 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
572
Count in 2025
7

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Meshach

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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