Girls' name · since 1968
Mellissia
Since 1968, U.S. Social Security records show 57 babies named Mellissia, peaking in 1972. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 57
- total births
- 1968–1980
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 63%
- born in that decade
Mellissia is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 57 have been recorded since 1968.
Mellissia has 57 recorded births among girls since 1968, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1968 to 1980.
- 57 total births
- 1968–1980 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 63% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mellissia's 57 recorded births place it above 54% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mellissia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mellissia splits its recorded history at 1975: 51% of all births land in the more recent half, 49% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1975 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1972 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mellissia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1968–1980
- Peak year (1972)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 13 years of records
Mellissia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Mellissia's strongest decade.
36 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Mellissia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 13
1960s
13 births
- 1970s
1970s
36 births
- 1980s 8
1980s
8 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 36 births (63% of all-time use).
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- Mellissia's decade-level peak was the 1970s (36 total births); usage has since declined to 8 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1968–1980 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mellissia: Baby Name Since 1968 - 57 Births, Peak 1972." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mellissia. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mellissia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.