Mélissa

given name · Latin script

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

Mélissa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Du grec melissa, « abeille »; symbolise la douceur et le miel.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 330(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 426
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 443

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.

United States (measured from records)

675,224 people, 2020

#129 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
649 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 330 (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MélissaLatin(measured from records)
มาริสาThai(measured from records)
מליסהHebrew(measured from records)
మానసTelugu(measured from records)
멜리사Hangul(measured from records)
මනසSinhala(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Melissa in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 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)

recorded in French

Du grec melissa, « abeille »; symbolise la douceur et le miel.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mélissa 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 Mélissa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#59675,2241 in 493675KMelissa649
BR Brazil#471122,1311 in 1.7K122KMelissa195
GB United Kingdom#116≈120,000 est.≈1 in 5515Melissa350
CA Canada#57≈89,000 est.≈1 in 42616Melissa331
IT Italy#180≈80,000 est.≈1 in 779583Melissa171
AU Australia#47≈77,000 est.≈1 in 33083Melissa318
SG Singapore#45≈11,000 est.≈1 in 543—Melissa145
NZ New Zealand#74≈11,000 est.≈1 in 44315Melissa173

675,224 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)

Mélissa 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 Melissa

  • 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

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Melissa

  • Greek given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Cyprus

    Also written Melissa, Melisa, Μελίσα, Μελισσά, Μελισσα

22 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mélissa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, From Greek melissa, ‘bee’

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)

1940196019802000Mélissa Drigeard, b. 1953Mélissa Theuriau, b. 1978Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, b. 1981Mélissa Laveaux, b. 1985Mélissa Plaza, b. 1988Mélissa Le Nevé, b. 1989Mélissa Da Costa, b. 1990Mélissa Nkonda, b. 1990Mélissa Busque, b. 1990Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 21 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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 Mélissa mean?
Recorded meaning: Du grec melissa, « abeille »; symbolise la douceur et le miel.
Is Mélissa a male or female name?
Mélissa 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.
What are other forms of the name Mélissa?
In the etymology graph, Melinda, Melisa and Melina are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Mélissa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 675 thousand people named Mélissa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melissa.
How common is the name Mélissa?
In the United States, the national register counted 675,224 people named Mélissa in 2020, about 1 in 493 residents.
How common is Mélissa compared with other names?
In the United States, Mélissa is the 59th most common given name of 2,815,431 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, “Mélissa” — the 59th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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