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Worldwide, Messala (Messala ) is a very rare epicene first name. The first name Messala is characteristic of Brazil, where it is an extremely rare dominantly male, but infrequently girly name, and India, where it is an extremely rare epicene name. More prevalently, Messala is the last name as well as the forename.
Messala is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Messala , the A fictional character from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.