Mëlissa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mëlissa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 675,224 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020, which ranks it 54th. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Melissa, from Ancient Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa), from μέλισσα (mélissa, “bee”). Mëlissa is also written มาริสา in Thai, מליסה in Hebrew and మానస in Telugu.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 320(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 400
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 400
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mëlissa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #129 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 649 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 317 (inferred from the name graph)
675,224 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mëlissa in other scripts: Thai, Hebrew, Telugu and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Melissa in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more and Manasa in IN India.
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)- LatinMelissa(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΜέλισσαMélissa(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootμέλισσαmélissa“bee”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin Melissa, from Ancient Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa), from μέλισσα (mélissa, “bee”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Irish first names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mëlissa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #59 | 675,224 | 1 in 493 | 675K | Melissa | 649 |
| GB United Kingdom | #116 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 493 | 5 | Melissa | 350 |
| BR Brazil | #471 | 122,131 | 1 in 1.7K | 122K | Melissa | 195 |
| CA Canada | #57 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 398 | 16 | Melissa | 331 |
| IN India | — | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 475 | Manasa | 133 |
| AU Australia | #47 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 317 | 83 | Melissa | 318 |
| NZ New Zealand | #74 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 397 | 15 | Melissa | 173 |
| SG Singapore | #45 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 469 | — | Melissa | 145 |
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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mëlissa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Melissa, from Ancient Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa), from μέλισσα (mélissa, “bee”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 5 other sources.
- Is Mëlissa a male or female name?
- Mëlissa 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Mëlissa?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 675 thousand people named Mëlissa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melissa. After it come United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mëlissa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 675,224 people named Mëlissa in 2020, about 1 in 493 residents.
- How common is Mëlissa compared with other names?
- In the United States, Mëlissa is the 59th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%ABlissaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Mëlissa” — ranked 54th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.