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How popular is the name Messiah?
Births per year, rank history and how many Messiahs are alive today.
Messiah (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 2014th in 2025 and given to 12 babies. The name peaked in 2017, when 18 babies were given the name, the 1398th most popular that year.
The Messiah you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Messiahs born in England and Wales are between 4 and 15, and there are at least 190 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Messiah - on average, only one in every 1,595 such rooms contains a Messiah.
How many babies are named Messiah each year?
Where does Messiah rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Messiah most popular?
Messiah peaked in 2017, when 18 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Messiah?
At least 190 people named Messiah born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Messiah?
Most living Messiahs are between 4 and 15; the most common age is about 4.
Is Messiah becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.