Massiah
Massiah was given to 64 boys in 2025, #2,221 among boys’ names; 1,544 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,530 Americans named Massiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Massiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Massiah?
#2,221 among boys’ names, 2025
Massiah fell from #1,837 in 2015 to #2,221 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.3 to 37.5 per million.
124 babies in 2021, the peak
Massiah peaked in 2021, when 124 boys were given it, #1,459 among boys’ names. The 64 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,221 | 37.5 |
| 2024 | 81 | #1,946 | 47.0 |
| 2023 | 81 | #1,937 | 47.4 |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,638 | 60.7 |
| 2021 | 124 | #1,459 | 70.9 |
| 2020 | 117 | #1,468 | 67.8 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,521 | 62.4 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,503 | 63.3 |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,503 | 60.0 |
| 2016 | 83 | #1,822 | 43.7 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,837 | 42.3 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,897 | 40.1 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,243 | 30.7 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,253 | 30.6 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,605 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,866 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,229 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,649 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,147 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,977 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,470 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,817 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,119 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,171 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,692 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,874 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,474 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Massiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,544 Americans recorded as Massiah, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 64 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Massiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Massiah, and how old are they?
1,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,544 Americans ever recorded as Massiah. The median Massiah alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 753 people named Massiah (84 women and girls, 669 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 993 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 296 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,240 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Massiah born?
The states with the most babies named Massiah are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 9 | #1,319 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,217 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,313 | 1.8× |
Where Massiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Massiah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1999 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Massiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,092 babies since 1880, Massiah is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 141 babies (45%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Massiah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Massiah and names like it
- Compare Massiah and MasiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMassiah peaked in 2021.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Massiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Massiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Massiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.