girls:
8.9k births since 1880
#1726 (70th percentile)
overall:
8.9k births since 1880
#2869 (63rd percentile)
The name Malissa is the #2,869 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,858 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 62.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,726 (69.8% percentile) for all time with 8,858 births since 1880.
Malissa has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Malissa reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 36.6% percentile (ranked #499) with 178 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 225 births per million (ranked 8.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1975, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Malissa ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 1.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malissa".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Malissa", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 20 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Melissa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Melissa..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Malissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Malissa is pronounced as muh-LIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-LEE-suh, at 15.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 L IH1 S AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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