In English, the name Messiah is translated as ‘saviour’. Its origins lie in the Hebrew word ‘mashiyach’ meaning ‘anointed’.
Messiah is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Messiah isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Messiah ranks 215. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 10 were named Messiah. In the entire USA, approximately 20,847 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Messiah. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
In English, the name Messiah is translated as ‘saviour’. Its origins lie in the Hebrew word ‘mashiyach’ meaning ‘anointed’.
In the Old Testament ,... the word messiah refers to a future king of the Jewish people. In the New Testament, it is translated as Christ and is used as a title of Jesus.
Messiah is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Messiah cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #170 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Messiah, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Messiah seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Messiah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
2,027 babies were named Messiah in 2022 - that's 1 in 80,472 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Messiah ranked 184 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With seven letters, the name Messiah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Messiah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Messiah, you can simply say:
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Elephant
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Apple
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Messiah sounds like this:
