Girls' name · since 1956
Melessia
Melessia has 212 recorded births since 1956 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1969 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 212
- total births
- 1956–1982
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 47%
- born in that decade
Melessia sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 212 recorded since 1956.
Melessia has 212 recorded births among girls since 1956, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1956 to 1982.
- 212 total births
- 1956–1982 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 47% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Melessia's 212 recorded births place it above 73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Melessia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Melessia's SSA record in two at 1970 and the more recent half accounts for 56% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 44%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1956, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 1969 peak of 15, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Melessia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1956–1982
- Peak year (1969)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Melessia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Melessia's strongest decade.
99 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 47% of all-time use.
Melessia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 6
1950s
6 births
- 1960s
1960s
88 births
- 1970s
1970s
99 births
- 1980s 19
1980s
19 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 99 births (47% of all-time use).
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- Melessia's decade-level peak was the 1970s (99 total births); usage has since declined to 19 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1956–1982 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Melessia: Baby Name Since 1956 - 212 Births, Peak 1969." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/melessia. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Melessia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.