Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Messias isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Messias through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 60
- 60 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,332 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,332 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 137 as a first name in 2020; 138 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.
Messias’s family of names
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Messias
- Veso Golden OkeNigerian transgender modelborn 1994
- Messias dos Reis SilveiraBrazilian bishopborn 1958
- Messias TimulaFootballer (1948-1998)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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