Meaning not yet researched.
Melisa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #342 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #342 in 1973; #2,950 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melisa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,950 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #342.
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Melisa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 girls in 2025. Peak: #342 in 1973 · most girls in one year: 661 (1979).
In 2025, 57 US girls were named Melisa, making it the 2,950th most common girls’ name of the year, up 121 places from #3,071 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 53 girls named Melisa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #342, reached in 1973. The most girls given the name in a single year was 661, in 1979. For comparison, it was #2,609 in 2015 and #5,098 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melisa in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 19,121 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 5,900 babies named Melisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 595 US girls were named Melisa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,198 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Melisa ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #2,064 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Melissa (762,623 babies since 1880), Mellisa (4,575 babies since 1880), Malisa (2,340 babies since 1880) and Mellissa (5,625 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Millisa 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Latvian, Polish and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Millisa (255).
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 Melisa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #2,064 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,306 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,381 | #2,916 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,642 | #1,887 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,201 | — | — |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 2015 | 69 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 2014 | 83 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 2012 | 126 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 2011 | 132 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 2010 | 129 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 2008 | 153 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2007 | 163 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2006 | 189 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2005 | 188 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 2004 | 253 | #953 | — | — |
| 2003 | 228 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 2002 | 200 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 2001 | 216 | #995 | — | — |
| 2000 | 213 | #998 | — | — |
| 1999 | 196 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1998 | 214 | #960 | — | — |
| 1997 | 231 | #880 | — | — |
| 1996 | 190 | #993 | — | — |
| 1995 | 197 | #958 | — | — |
| 1994 | 217 | #887 | — | — |
| 1993 | 236 | #836 | — | — |
| 1992 | 266 | #775 | — | — |
| 1991 | 265 | #777 | — | — |
| 1990 | 264 | #778 | — | — |
| 1989 | 272 | #726 | — | — |
| 1988 | 337 | #595 | — | — |
| 1987 | 298 | #636 | — | — |
| 1986 | 328 | #589 | — | — |
| 1985 | 379 | #526 | — | — |
| 1984 | 376 | #517 | — | — |
| 1983 | 385 | #504 | — | — |
| 1982 | 428 | #484 | — | — |
| 1981 | 516 | #421 | — | — |
| 1980 | 566 | #405 | — | — |
| 1979 | 661 | #350 | — | — |
| 1978 | 554 | #380 | — | — |
| 1977 | 553 | #382 | 5 | #6,500 |
| 1976 | 546 | #377 | — | — |
| 1975 | 548 | #379 | — | — |
| 1974 | 618 | #352 | — | — |
| 1973 | 638 | #342 | — | — |
| 1972 | 633 | #351 | 5 | #5,491 |
| 1971 | 583 | #388 | — | — |
| 1970 | 556 | #410 | — | — |
| 1969 | 527 | #420 | — | — |
| 1968 | 578 | #383 | — | — |
| 1967 | 482 | #426 | — | — |
| 1966 | 387 | #478 | — | — |
| 1965 | 372 | #495 | — | — |
| 1964 | 276 | #603 | — | — |
| 1963 | 261 | #625 | — | — |
| 1962 | 216 | #703 | — | — |
| 1961 | 157 | #844 | — | — |
| 1960 | 140 | #882 | — | — |
| 1959 | 118 | #974 | — | — |
| 1958 | 101 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1957 | 71 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1953 | 27 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,057 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,098 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,770 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,758 | — | — |
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).