Meshach

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Meshach is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Mishael, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 665K
  • GYGuyana1 in 19K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,500 people, est.

Sources
134 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Mishael, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meshach counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Meshach is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈9,500 est.≈1 in 23K—Meshach45
US United States5001 in 665K492Meshach134
GH Ghana≈340 est.≈1 in 85K—Meshach16
KE Kenya≈340 est.≈1 in 156K—Meshach11
ZA South Africa≈260 est.≈1 in 220K—Meshach12
GY Guyana401 in 19K40Meshach1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Meshach is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Me-Shach

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Nigeria

    Also written Méshach

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Meshach is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Biblical name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Meshach Browning, b. 1781Meshach Chambers, b. 1867Meshach Dean, b. 1870Meshach Taylor, b. 1947Meshach Wade, b. 1973

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Meshach
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020492#20,595
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202540#554
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199432—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199627—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199325—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199524—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199723—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199223—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201619—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200119—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199018—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199117—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Meshach mean, and where does it come from?
Mishael, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Meshach a male or female name?
Meshach is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Meshach have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Meshach in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meshach.
Where is Meshach most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meshach is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Meshach?
In the United States, the national register counted 500 people named Meshach in 2020, about 1 in 665 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meshach”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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