Melissa

21 variations

girls:

802.4k births since 1880

#36 (99th percentile)

boys:

2.5k births since 1956

#2062 (47th percentile)

overall:

804.9k births since 1880

#79 (99th percentile)

Popularity of Melissa's 21 Variations

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the 21 variations of "Melissa". These 21 different ways to spell Melissa have been grouped together based on pronunciation by a model that updates daily in response to your feedback.

1880 2023 18802023

This table provides detailed name popularity stats for 21 spelling variations of Melissa based on Social Security card applications in the United States. Alternate spellings are only included if they were used at least 5 times in a single year.

This table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers.

758.5k
34k
1979
1880
99.9%
59.9%
#2
#380
19k
661
1979
1948
58.2%
5.2%
#322
#898
8,858
307
1979
1880
36.6%
0.2%
#196
#945
5,625
272
1979
1926
33.0%
#527
4,570
221
1979
1952
27.3%
#572
2,495
138
1980
1956
19.6%
#548
2,340
104
1973
1885
13.4%
#249
2,023
121
1989
1965
14.6%
0.2%
#705
#945
399
25
1989
1979
2.4%
#784
399
19
1991
1957
1.6%
#729
133
14
1981
1967
1.2%
#737
128
10
1973
1924
0.7%
#610
100
11
1982
1968
0.8%
#739
86
9
1972
1957
0.5%
#738
80
10
1989
1979
1.1%
#785
32
6
1989
1963
0.6%
#772
27
6
1979
1971
0.1%
#746
11
6
1995
1987
0.1%
#802
10
5
1972
1972
0.0%
#661
6
6
1990
1990
0.1%
#861
5
5
1992
1992
0.0%
#859
5
5
1978
1978
0.0%
#756
5
5
1967
1967
0.0%
#738

The popularity percentiles and rank data in the table above are computed for each spelling variation individually, compared against all other individual spellings. This is different from the header on this page and our ranking pages, which compare popularity of the grouped spellings as a whole.

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All Spelling Variations of Melissa

The 21 different ways to spell Melissa, sorted by popularity, are Melissa, Melisa, Malissa, Mellissa, Mellisa, Malisa, Melyssa, Malyssa, Mylissa, Melisssa, Mallissa, Mallisa, Mlissa, Melysa, Malesa, Melisaa, Malysa, Mellyssa, Maleesa, Meleesa, and Molissa.

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