Melisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: lemon balm
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/melisa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Melisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 427 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
lemon balm
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melisa 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 1.7K | 2.3K | Melisa | 59 |
| AR Argentina | #325 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 149 | Melisa | 127 |
| US United States | — | 18,912 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Melisa | 427 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Melisa | 54 |
| CO Colombia | #370 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | 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 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Melisa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Griego melissa: 'abeja'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In German, weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Dulce como la miel
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Polish, lemon balm, melissa (any plant of the genus Melissa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, divdīgļlapju klases asteru apakšklases panātru rindas lūpziežu dzimtas ģints ("Melissa"), ~3 sugas, Latvijā 1 sugu audzē kā kultūraugu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Melisa Wallackb. 1968USscreenwriter, film director, and former business manager
- Kid Sisterb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Melisa Sözenb. 1985TRTurkish actor (born 1985)
- Melai Cantiverosb. 1988PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actress and comedian
- Melisa Aslı Pamukb. 1991NLMiss Turkey 2011, contestant at Miss Universe 2011, actress and model
- Melisa Ertürkb. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
- Melisa Şenolsunb. 1996TRTurkish actor (born 1996)
- Melisa Döngelb. 1999TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1999)
- Melisa Filisb. 2002GBIrish association football player (born 2002)
- Melisa Martinkenaite Zenaactress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 95 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19K | #1,658 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2.9K | #104 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2020 | 2.3K | #29 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1.7K | #275 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1K | #414 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 999 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 149 | #612 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 57 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 47 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 47 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28 | #1,658 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Melisa mean, and where does it come from?
- lemon balm Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Melisa a male or female name?
- Melisa 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.
- How do you pronounce Melisa?
- A machine transcription gives /melisa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Melisa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Melisa in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melisa.
- Where is Melisa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melisa is densest in Albania — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Melisa?
- In the etymology graph, Melissa, Melinda and Melina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Melisa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,912 people named Melisa in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Melisa compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Melisa 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/melisaThe 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, “Melisa” — the 309th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.