Melisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Melisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 912 babies named Melisha between 1960 and 2014, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 62 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Melisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 304 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Melisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Melisha in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Melisha 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 912 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.