Mélisa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mélisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa).

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.7K
  • COColombia≈1 in 6.3K

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈47,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
427 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MélisaLatin(measured from records)
მელისაGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Melisa in AR Argentina, US United States, CO Colombia and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Mélisa: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Mélisa
  1. GreekΜέλισσαMélissa(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Indo-European*mélit“honey”(inferred from the name graph)via Μέλισσα
  3. Proto-Hellenic*meliťťa(inferred from the name graph)via Μέλισσα

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa).

Sources 5

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mélisa 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.

Where Mélisa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—≈47,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K2.3KMelisa59
AR Argentina#325≈31,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K149Melisa127
US United States—18,9121 in 18K19KMelisa427
PH Philippines—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 9.2K—Melisa54
CO Colombia#370≈7,800 est.≈1 in 6.3K—Melisa94
AL Albania—2,9141 in 1.1K2.9K—3
MD Moldova—1,7211 in 2K1.7K—2
LV Latvia—9991 in 1.9K1K—16
HN Honduras#309≈600 est.≈1 in 16K—Melisa21

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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TÜİK NIP — newborn names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mélisa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Melisa

  • Turkish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Melisa, M'Elisa, Mélisà, Mélisâ, Mêlisa

  • Russian given name90 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Türkiye, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Turkish, Polish

    Also written Melissa, Мелисса, Мелиса, Melisa, Меліса

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Türkiye, Spain

    Also written Melisa

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mélisa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mélisa mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 3 other sources.
Is Mélisa a male or female name?
Mélisa is a female 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.
In which country does Mélisa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Mélisa in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melisa.
Where is Mélisa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mélisa is densest in Albania — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mélisa?
In the United States, the national register counted 18,912 people named Mélisa in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
How common is Mélisa compared with other names?
In Honduras, Mélisa is the 309th most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mélisa” — the 309th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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