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Melissa
Pronounced /məˈlɪsə/
Rank in 2024
#376
Born in 2024
825
Peak year
1979 · #2
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 825 girls were named Melissa, about 1 in every 1,955.
- It peaked in 1979 with 34,050 babies, ranked #2.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 759,386 girls have been named Melissa since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Melissa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 1.5Boomers1946–64
- 14.6Gen X1965–80
- 9.2Millennials1981–96
- 1.9Gen Z1997–12
- 0.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,240 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 1,693 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 55,447 babies, 1.55 per 1,000. Gen X: 372,846 babies, 14.59 per 1,000. Millennials: 259,421 babies, 9.19 per 1,000. Gen Z: 54,919 babies, 1.89 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 12,954 babies, 0.64 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Ancient Greek μέλισσα (mélissa, “bee, honey, or honeybee”). In Ireland it is sometimes used as a feminine form of the Gaelic male name Maol Íosa (literally “servant of Jesus”).
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, popular in the latter half of the 20th century.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /məˈlɪsə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Melissa, CC BY-SA 4.0.