Masiah
Masculine · “anointed one”
Masiah is given to both — 1,204 boys and 122 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Masiah respells Messiah, and the Hebrew mashiach means anointed — smeared with oil, which is all the word originally said.
How old is the name Masiah?
Masiah first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Masiah is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Masiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Masiah most popular?
Masiah peaked in 2022, reaching #1642 nationally. Today it ranks #2258, 616 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
Where it comes from
From mashach to Masiah
The story of Masiah
Mashiach describes an ordinary rite — oil poured on a king's head at his accession — and Isaiah applies it to Cyrus, a Persian who never worshipped Israel's God. The eschatological sense grew later. Masiah is a modern American spelling and appears in the registers in current use.
Meaning
anointed one
From the Hebrew mashiach, 'anointed', from mashach, 'to smear with oil'. Kings and high priests were anointed, and the word named any of them before it named an awaited deliverer. Greek translated it christos. The Hebrew is documented.
How the name formed
- mashach
- mashiach
- Messiah
- Masiah
Related forms: Messiah · Massiah · משיח
Pronouncing Masiah
muh-SY-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Masiah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1997
- Most boys named
- 2022105 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1642reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +19.2%62 in 2025, from 52
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Masiah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Messiah in English — spelling variant
- Massiah in English — spelling variant
- משיח in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Ohio.
Masiahs among us
people named Masiah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 27,550 born in 2025 was named Masiah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Masiah
- #2258
- Masiah on the 2025 chart
- #819
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Masiah went to 62 boys in 2025, but Maziah, Maciah and Masiyah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 109, which makes it the 819th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,439 places above the chart.
- Masiah62
- Maziah20
- Maciah13
- Masiyah9
- Masiya5
About 1 boy in 15,670 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 27,550 for Masiah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cross test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Masiah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cross climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cross's path sketches the road Masiah is walking now.
Masiah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Masiah is headed
Masiah is easing off slowly — about 19% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Masiah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Masiah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Isaiah calls a Persian king an anointed one is a first-rate fact.
- Siah is available as a short form with a real record.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- It is a religious title and carries a very large claim.
- Messiah is the standard spelling.
- At least three spellings are in circulation.
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Masculine · #2258 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Masiahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Masiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Masiah?
- Masiah is the most-used spelling in US records — 62 of the 109 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Maziah, Maciah, Masiyah and Masiya.
- How popular is the name Masiah in 2025?
- Masiah ranks #2258 among US boy names in 2025, with 62 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Masiah?
- About 1 in every 27,550 US boys born in 2025 was named Masiah — 62 in all.
- Will my child share the name Masiah with classmates?
- Masiah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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