first name
MELLISSA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 5,449 people named Mellissa, 68.9% reported their origin as White, 14.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 9.4% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Mellissa peaked in 1979, when 272 babies got the name.
At least 5,625 babies have been given the name since 1926. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Mellissa by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,343. The largest share of babies named Mellissa, 50.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Mellissa is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mellissa has been most common in Florida (2×), California (1.9×), and Michigan (1.8×), and least common in Tennessee (0.43×).
3,268 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mellissa, most common first.
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