Mellissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Mellissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,625 babies named Mellissa between 1926 and 2018, spanning 93 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mellissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 272 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mellissa performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,921 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Mellissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 636 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Mellissa in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mellissa 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 5,625 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.