Melitta

Girls' name

Variant of Melissa

Melitta has been given to 83 babies in the U.S. since 1954. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Melitta, 1988

1 in 739,000

Melitta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melitta: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Melissa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melitta means

Melitta is a variant of Melissa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Melitta is used in Ancient Greek and German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /me.ˈlɪ.ta/ for Melitta.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Melitta is a variant of Melissa. Melissa has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melissa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 83 girls were recorded with the name Melitta between 1954 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1975; its best national rank was #4,496 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Melitta?

Melitta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988: 1 in 739,000; 5 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only: 1 in 356,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 512,128 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Melitta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melitta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melittas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melitta was born before 1975 — so the typical Melitta is around 50 today.

Median birth year: 1975; About 50 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 56.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 83.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 83; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 56.6% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Melitta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1975 (14)
Years since peak: 50; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,496; 1975

Spellings of Melitta

Melitta is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 80.0% against Melitta's <0.01%.

Melissa80.0%760,128
Melinda14.3%135,822
Melina2.1%19,926
Melisa2.0%19,111
Melia0.56%5,321
Melita0.20%1,861
Yelitza0.13%1,201
Metta0.12%1,123

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Melitta around the world

Where Melitta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1955–1981
#616
in 1981

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Melitta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,496; 1975
Peak year: 1975; 14 that year
First recorded: 1954
Last recorded: 1988
All-time count: 83
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Melitta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Melanin Melahni Meleane Mellina Melanii Melayah Melodii Meliana Melinna Meleana Melaysia Melaher Melanye Melenda Melitza Melianna Melona Mellow Meladie Meladee Lunetta Melisia Melly Melizza

Sibling names for Melitta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Cary Karie Brandee Sunshine Kisha Ami Susannah Kesha

For a brother

Giuseppe Abdul Demond Andrea Jamey Chadwick Torrey Federico

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