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Messi

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Messi has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 2006. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2013, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Messi, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Messi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Messi means

Messi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Messi is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Messi is pronounced /ˈmɛsi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 207 boys were recorded with the name Messi between 2006 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2013; its best national rank was #4,910 in 2013.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Messi?

Messi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Messi 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Messi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Messis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Messi was born before 2015 — so the typical Messi is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
62.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
207
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 62.3% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Messi 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2013 (19)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,910
2013

Spellings of Messi

Messi is not the most common spelling — Jesse is, with 68.8% against Messi's 0.03%.

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 Messi is used

Across 1910–2025, Messi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,075,654 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Messi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Messi around the world

Where Messi 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
    2009–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    2009–2025
    #2,666
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Messi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,910
2013
Peak year
2013
19 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
207
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Messi

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

MesiahMesserMessaiYossiMesiasMeshilemMeshachMessiyahMessiasMesiyahRossiJessiMessyahMeshalMesaiMeshulemMassiMesziahMesyahMeshackMesutMesacMessiahAlessi

Sibling names for Messi

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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