Mellissa

girls:

5.6k births since 1926

#2217 (61st percentile)

overall:

5.6k births since 1926

#3624 (53rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mellissa".

1926 2018 19262018

Key Statistics

Total Births
5,625
Peak Births
272
Peak Year
1979
First Recorded
1926
Peak Percentile
33.0%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#527
Current Rank
#961
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Mellissa

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Mellissa. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 54.1% confident that Mellissa is pronounced as muh-LIH-suh. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-lih-suh, at 18.9% confidence.

MEH-lee-suh (3 syllables)
8.1% confidence
M EH1 L IY0 S AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Mellissa. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Mellissa, please vote using the thumbs up button.

meh-lih-suh (3 syllables)
2 names 19k births
M EH0 L IH0 S AH0

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muh-lih-suh (3 syllables)
1 name 19k births
M AH0 L IH0 S AH0

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About Pronunciation Data

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.