Millissa
Millissa was last recorded in 1992, when 5 babies were given it; 329 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Millissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Millissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,723, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1968, the peak
Millissa peaked in 1968, when 23 girls were given it, #2,686 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #14,723 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,773 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,268 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,024 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,774 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,194 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,070 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,690 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,874 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,182 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 16 | #4,538 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,814 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,353 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,079 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,502 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,165 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,900 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,451 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,060 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,390 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,930 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,686 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,939 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,489 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,121 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,524 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,358 | 3.1 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,775 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Millissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Millissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Millissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Millissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 306 Americans named Millissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 46 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 315 people named Millissa (313 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 313 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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
Millissa is a less common spelling of Milissa: SSA has recorded 329 Millissa and 3,003 Milissa since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Millissa
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.