Given name & surname · also Hindi
Masih
“anointed, messiah”
Masih is a surname from Hindi, ultimately from Arabic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Masih goes back to Arabic مَسِيح, meaning “anointed, messiah.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Masih comes from Hindi, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Hindi मसीह (masīh), from Classical Persian مسیح (masīh), from Arabic مَسِيح (“anointed, messiah”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Masih through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 91
- 91 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,231 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +13%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,231 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,288 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Masih’s family of names
Masih may belong to the same name family as MASSIH. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Masih
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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