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Mesa vs Mesiah

American parents have registered 843 Mesas since 1880, against 507 Mesiahs. Mesa is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mesa against Mesiah, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mesa Mesiah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 43 years in which either name was published, Mesa for 41 years and Mesiah for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Mesa Mesiah
Total US births 843507
Most in one year 4740
Babies in 2025 3224
Estimated living today 830500
Median age today 138
Peak year 20132017
Best rank 3,367th girls2,951st boys
Rank in 2025 4,352nd4,249th
First recorded 19721999
Girls / boys 843 / 05 / 502

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mesas alive today are over 13; half the Mesiahs are over 8. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mesa and Mesiah.