Melisa — #3049 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Melisa

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,054 babies named Melisa between 1948 and 2024, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melisa currently holds the #3049 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 661 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Melisa performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 5,890 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Melisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,711 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Melisa in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Melisa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 19,054 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.