Melissá

given name · Latin script

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

Melissá is a female 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: Borrowed from Latin Melissa, from Ancient Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa), from μέλισσα (mélissa, “bee”).

  • 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 Melissá 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)

675,224 people, 2020

#129 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
649 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 317 (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
MelissáLatin(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 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)
Derivation of Melissá: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Melissá
  1. LatinMelissa(measured from records)
  2. Ancient GreekΜέλισσαMélissa(measured from records)
  3. 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 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Melissá 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 Melissá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#59675,2241 in 493675KMelissa649
GB United Kingdom#116≈140,000 est.≈1 in 4935Melissa350
BR Brazil#471122,1311 in 1.7K122KMelissa195
CA Canada#57≈100,000 est.≈1 in 39816Melissa331
IN India—≈96,000 est.≈1 in 15K475Manasa133
AU Australia#47≈86,000 est.≈1 in 31783Melissa318
NZ New Zealand#74≈13,000 est.≈1 in 39715Melissa173
SG Singapore#45≈13,000 est.≈1 in 469—Melissa145

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

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Melissá 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 Melissá a male or female name?
Melissá 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 Melissá have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 675 thousand people named Melissá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melissa.
How common is the name Melissá?
In the United States, the national register counted 675,224 people named Melissá in 2020, about 1 in 493 residents.
How common is Melissá compared with other names?
In the United States, Melissá 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, “Melissá” — the 59th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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