Melissia
Melissia was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 1,926 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Melissia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 47 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melissia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melissia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,679, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
121 babies in 1968, the peak
Melissia peaked in 1968, when 121 girls were given it, #944 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #16,679 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,819 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,934 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,233 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,526 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,465 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,730 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,195 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,221 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,300 | 16.1 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 28 | #3,239 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,143 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,386 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,831 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,474 | 23.0 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,901 | 34.2 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,171 | 28.3 |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,599 | 44.2 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,816 | 36.6 |
| 1977 | 72 | #1,525 | 47.0 |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,488 | 47.8 |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,323 | 56.9 |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,456 | 47.0 |
| 1973 | 85 | #1,235 | 58.3 |
| 1972 | 90 | #1,200 | 59.2 |
| 1971 | 120 | #1,030 | 72.1 |
| 1970 | 111 | #1,081 | 63.5 |
| 1969 | 94 | #1,148 | 55.7 |
| 1968 | 121 | #944 | 73.8 |
| 1967 | 102 | #1,023 | 61.8 |
| 1966 | 68 | #1,319 | 40.2 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,730 | 24.4 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,908 | 20.6 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,911 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,713 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,420 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,067 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,062 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,184 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,102 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,270 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,970 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,265 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,891 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,129 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,680 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,757 | 2.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,039 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,128 | 3.6 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,368 | 4.2 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,835 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,302 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,265 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,320 | 4.4 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,632 | 22.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melissia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melissia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melissia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melissia, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,926 Americans ever recorded as Melissia. The median Melissia alive today is 54 years old; half are between 47 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 1,394 people named Melissia (1,390 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,784 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 199 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,210 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 317 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 792,305 babies since 1880, Melissia is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 804 babies recorded by SSA was a Melissia (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 Melissia
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 Melissia and names like it
- Compare Melissia and MelissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMelissia peaked in 1968.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melissia since 1910.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Melissia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Melissia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.