Mellisa — #15546 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Mellisa

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,575 babies named Mellisa between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mellisa currently holds the #15546 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 221 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mellisa performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,569 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Mellisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 547 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mellisa in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mellisa 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 4,575 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.