Mellisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: OCR unclear; Teutonic
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛɫɪsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mellisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 51K
- USUnited States1 in 59K
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)
- Sources
- 283 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
5,645 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
OCR unclear; Teutonic
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mellisa 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 | — | 5,645 | 1 in 59K | 5.6K | Mellisa | 283 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Mellisa | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Mellisa | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 3 | Mellisa | 85 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Mellisa | 21 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 3 | Mellisa | 86 |
| JM Jamaica | #660 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Mellisa | 11 |
| GY Guyana | #493 | 113 | 1 in 6.6K | 113 | Mellisa | 5 |
5,645 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); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mellisa Gallob. 1967CAbadminton player
- Mellisa Hollingsworthb. 1980CACanadian skeleton racer
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 42 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.6K | #3,620 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 221 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 211 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 202 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 182 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 175 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 174 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 174 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 113 | #481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #3,620 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2001 | 3 | #627 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Mellisa mean, and where does it come from?
- OCR unclear; Teutonic Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Mellisa?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɫɪsə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Mellisa a male or female name?
- Mellisa 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 Mellisa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Mellisa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mellisa.
- How common is the name Mellisa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,645 people named Mellisa in 2020, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Mellisa compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Mellisa is the 493rd most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mellisa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mellisaThe 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, “Mellisa” — the 493rd most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.