Meaning not yet researched.
Malissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #348 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #348 in 1880; #11,546 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,546 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #348.
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Malissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #348 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 307 (1979).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Malissa, making it the 11,546th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #348, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 307, in 1979. For comparison, it was #9,913 in 2015 and #2,226 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malissa in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 22 babies. In all, 8,866 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,657 babies named Malissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 71 US girls were named Malissa; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Melissa (762,623 babies since 1880) and Malisa (2,340 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Malyssa, Mallissa and Mallisa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Malyssa (399), Mallissa (128), Mallisa (100), Malessa (74), Malesa (32), Malysa (11), Maliza (11), Malaysa (5), Maleesa (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Malissa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,546 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,966 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,835 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,616 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,747 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,099 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,010 | — | — |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,261 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,222 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,913 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,522 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,882 | — | — |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,978 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,667 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,590 | — | — |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,724 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,627 | — | — |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,047 | — | — |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,445 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,376 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,042 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,998 | — | — |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1993 | 112 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1992 | 129 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1991 | 129 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1990 | 150 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1989 | 153 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1988 | 158 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1987 | 148 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1986 | 169 | #941 | — | — |
| 1985 | 170 | #930 | — | — |
| 1984 | 183 | #843 | — | — |
| 1983 | 177 | #865 | — | — |
| 1982 | 211 | #777 | — | — |
| 1981 | 228 | #725 | — | — |
| 1980 | 207 | #793 | — | — |
| 1979 | 307 | #588 | — | — |
| 1978 | 244 | #660 | — | — |
| 1977 | 258 | #643 | — | — |
| 1976 | 231 | #665 | — | — |
| 1975 | 231 | #659 | — | — |
| 1974 | 234 | #651 | — | — |
| 1973 | 288 | #570 | — | — |
| 1972 | 305 | #548 | — | — |
| 1971 | 294 | #592 | — | — |
| 1970 | 265 | #630 | — | — |
| 1969 | 268 | #612 | — | — |
| 1968 | 258 | #600 | — | — |
| 1967 | 221 | #642 | — | — |
| 1966 | 183 | #729 | — | — |
| 1965 | 126 | #896 | — | — |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1963 | 83 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1962 | 62 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1959 | 32 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,659 | — | — |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,570 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,244 | — | — |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,730 | — | — |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1924 | 42 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1912 | 25 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1910 | 22 | #932 | — | — |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1907 | 22 | #809 | — | — |
| 1906 | 20 | #832 | — | — |
| 1905 | 23 | #771 | — | — |
| 1904 | 20 | #823 | — | — |
| 1903 | 14 | #958 | — | — |
| 1902 | 24 | #706 | — | — |
| 1901 | 14 | #905 | — | — |
| 1900 | 30 | #652 | — | — |
| 1899 | 18 | #779 | — | — |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1897 | 17 | #778 | — | — |
| 1896 | 25 | #628 | — | — |
| 1895 | 24 | #636 | — | — |
| 1894 | 18 | #712 | — | — |
| 1893 | 20 | #653 | — | — |
| 1892 | 21 | #631 | — | — |
| 1891 | 17 | #657 | — | — |
| 1890 | 20 | #592 | — | — |
| 1889 | 24 | #526 | — | — |
| 1888 | 16 | #656 | — | — |
| 1887 | 17 | #550 | — | — |
| 1886 | 21 | #487 | — | — |
| 1885 | 25 | #423 | — | — |
| 1884 | 13 | #606 | — | — |
| 1883 | 24 | #384 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #784 | — | — |
| 1881 | 16 | #429 | — | — |
| 1880 | 22 | #348 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).