Messias
given name · Latin script
Meaning: messiah (person ordained by God to lead the people of Israel)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mesiɐs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Messias is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
- MZMozambique≈1 in 2.7K
- NANamibia≈1 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
32,653 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
messiah (person ordained by God to lead the people of Israel)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Messias 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #285 | 32,653 | 1 in 6.5K | 34K | Messias | 157 |
| MZ Mozambique | #148 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Messias | 17 |
| AO Angola | #676 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Messias | 21 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 50K | listed | Messias | 63 |
| NA Namibia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | — | 2 |
32,653 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Messias is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Amsterdam, Dutch Brazil; Messias; Messiah
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In German, The Messiah / messiah (Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah, Jesus the Christ).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Messias Carrerab. 1907BRBrazilian entomologist (1907–1994)
- Messias Pereira Donatob. 1921BRBrazilian lawyer
- Messias Góisb. 1941BRBrazilian politician
- Messias Soaresb. 1942BRBrazilian politician (1942-2003)
- Messias Pontesb. 1947BRBrazilian politician
- Messias Timulab. 1948PTFootballer (1948-1998)
- Jair Bolsonarob. 1955BRnot in their usual name38th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil (2019–2023)
- Messias dos Reis Silveirab. 1958BRBrazilian bishop
- Messias José Baptistab. 1968BRBrazilian athletics competitor
- Veso Golden Okeb. 1994NGnot in their usual nameNigerian transgender model
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 116K | #252 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Messias mean, and where does it come from?
- messiah (person ordained by God to lead the people of Israel) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Messias?
- A machine transcription gives /mesiɐs/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Messias a male or female name?
- Messias 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.
- What are other forms of the name Messias?
- In the etymology graph, Messiah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Messias have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Messias, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled messias.
- How common is the name Messias?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 32,653 people named Messias in 2022, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Messias compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Messias is the 285th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Messias?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/messiasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Messias” — the 285th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.