Malissia
Malissia was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 485 Americans have been recorded with it between 1887 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malissia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malissia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,491, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1916, the peak
Malissia peaked in 1916, when 18 girls were given it, #1,922 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #14,491 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,677 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,184 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,862 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,541 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,841 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,141 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,801 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,775 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,241 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 15 | #4,085 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,744 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,361 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,273 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,348 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,992 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,493 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,366 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,102 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,276 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,163 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,016 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,835 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,678 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,375 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,081 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,651 | 3.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,719 | 6.1 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,975 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,043 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,346 | 7.7 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,196 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,634 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,906 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,566 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,539 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,073 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,568 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,235 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,129 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,119 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,016 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,922 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,317 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,868 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,262 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,277 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,367 | 14.3 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,550 | 25.9 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,589 | 25.1 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,273 | 34.3 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,056 | 18.2 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,110 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,419 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,673 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,753 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,853 | 19.3 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,734 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,620 | 22.4 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,383 | 28.3 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,160 | 36.8 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,219 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,242 | 34.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malissia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malissia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malissia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malissia, and how old are they?
An estimated 196 Americans named Malissia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 48 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 213 people named Malissia (213 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,446 babies since 1880, Malissia is the fifth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 286 babies recorded by SSA was a Malissia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Malissia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Malissia and names like it
- Compare Malissia and MalaysiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMalissia peaked in 1916.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malissia since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Malissia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Malissia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.