girls:
19k births since 1948
#1069 (81st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1972
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
19k births since 1948
#1863 (76th percentile)
The name Melisa is the #1,863 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,011 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 75.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,069 (81.3% percentile) for all time with 19,001 births since 1948. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1972.
Melisa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for girls and 1972 for boys).
The name Melisa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Melisa reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 58.2% percentile (ranked #329) with 384 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 411 births per million (ranked 56.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Melisa ranks #898 for girls (5.2% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 7.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Melisa reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #661) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Melisa".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Melisa", 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 8 different pronunciations for the name Melisa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.8% confident that Melisa is pronounced as muh-LEE-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-LEE-suh, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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