Melísa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Melísa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa).
- ALAlbania1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.4K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.8K
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 Melísa 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 427 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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)- GreekΜέλισσαMélissa(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*mélit“honey”(inferred from the name graph)via Μέλισσα
- 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).
Cited for this meaning 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 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Melísa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 2.3K | Melisa | 59 |
| AR Argentina | #325 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 149 | Melisa | 127 |
| US United States | — | 18,912 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Melisa | 427 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Melisa | 54 |
| CO Colombia | #370 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Melisa | 94 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,914 | 1 in 1.1K | 2.9K | — | 3 |
| MD Moldova | — | 1,721 | 1 in 2K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | 999 | 1 in 1.9K | 1K | — | 16 |
| HN Honduras | #309 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Melisa | 21 |
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Melísa 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 Melísa a male or female name?
- Melísa 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 Melísa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Melísa in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melisa.
- Where is Melísa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melísa 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 Melísa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,912 people named Melísa in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Melísa compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Melísa is the 309th most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mel%C3%ADsaThe 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, “Melísa” — the 309th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.