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Mellisa

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Mellisa has been given to 4,575 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1979, with 221 recorded.

Babies named Mellisa, 2024

1 in 669,000

Mellisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mellisa: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mellisa means

Mellisa is a given name.

The naming story behind Mellisa

Wikidata records Mellisa as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q57403528, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,575 girls were recorded with the name Mellisa between 1952 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 221 in 1979; its best national rank was #740 in 1979.

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.

How common is Mellisa?

Mellisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mellisa 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mellisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mellisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mellisa was born before 1980 — so the typical Mellisa is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,575
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (1,569).

Is Mellisa 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (221)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#740
1979

Spellings of Mellisa

Mellisa is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 83.4% against Mellisa's 0.50%.

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.

Where Mellisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Mellisa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 58,724 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 50,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mellisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mellisa around the world

Where Mellisa 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1985–2001
    #627
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    1976–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1964–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Mellisa

People whose public names include Mellisa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mellisa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mellisa. Linked forms have their own page here.

MellMelisaMelissaMellissaMillicaMélissa

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mellisa 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
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Best rank ever
#740
1979
Peak year
1979
221 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,575
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mellisa

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

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Names with a curve like Mellisa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mellisa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Mellisa

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

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