How rare is the name Mellisa?

5,645 people in the United States have the first name Mellisa, about 1 in 53,504. It ranks #3,620 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MELLISA

#3,620

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,645
About
1 in 53,504
This common or more
82.7%
Who bears it

Of the 5,645 people named Mellisa, 65.5% reported their origin as White, 18.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.5% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mellisa peaked in 1979, when 221 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19522024
Peak year
1979
Births that year
221
In 2024
5 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,575 babies have been given the name since 1952. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Mellisa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,502. The largest share of babies named Mellisa, 48.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#7,89353
1960s#2,460551
1970s#1,5021,569
1980s#1,6961,539
1990s#3,613641
2000s#10,726184
2010s#28,79733
2020s#39,3255
Baby boom 1946–643.8%
Generation X 1965–8048.1%
Millennials 1981–9640.6%
Generation Z 1997–126.9%
2013 and later0.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Mellisa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mellisa has been most common in California (2.3×), Michigan (2.1×), and Florida (1.8×), and least common in Georgia (0.51×).

2,374 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Mellisa

#3,618 Marnie · 5,648#3,618 Zoraida · 5,648#3,621 Jalyn · 5,644#3,622 Sharla · 5,641

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mellisa, most common first.

#54 Melissa · 675,224#1,658 Melisa · 18,912#3,717 Mellissa · 5,449#8,053 Melyssa · 1,827#10,303 Meliza · 1,302#13,818 Melisha · 866#17,250 Melika · 643#19,604 Meliss · 537

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