Melisa
#2,933 for girls in 2025, 57 births · Last seen for boys in 1977 at #5,845
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1973 · 638 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,111since 1948
Melisa over time
Rank among girls' names. Melisa has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,933 | 57 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,047 | 53 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,047 | 54 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,171 | 51 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,069 | 53 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,450 | 44 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,532 | 69 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,432 | 74 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,479 | 73 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,590 | 69 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,256 | 83 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,834 | 110 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,680 | 126 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,633 | 132 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,649 | 129 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,660 | 134 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,521 | 153 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,445 | 163 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,268 | 189 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,214 | 188 | — | |
| 2004 | #952 | 253 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,013 | 228 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,063 | 200 | — | |
| 2001 | #993 | 216 | — | |
| 2000 | #994 | 213 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,035 | 196 | — | |
| 1998 | #958 | 214 | — | |
| 1997 | #878 | 231 | — | |
| 1996 | #990 | 190 | — | |
| 1995 | #953 | 197 | — | |
| 1994 | #885 | 217 | — | |
| 1993 | #835 | 236 | — | |
| 1992 | #774 | 266 | — | |
| 1991 | #776 | 265 | — | |
| 1990 | #774 | 264 | — | |
| 1989 | #726 | 272 | — | |
| 1988 | #595 | 337 | — | |
| 1987 | #636 | 298 | — | |
| 1986 | #587 | 328 | — | |
| 1985 | #526 | 379 | — | |
| 1984 | #516 | 376 | — | |
| 1983 | #504 | 385 | — | |
| 1982 | #484 | 428 | — | |
| 1981 | #421 | 516 | — | |
| 1980 | #405 | 566 | — | |
| 1979 | #350 | 661 | — | |
| 1978 | #380 | 554 | — | |
| 1977 | #382 | 553 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #377 | 546 | — | |
| 1975 | #379 | 548 | — | |
| 1974 | #350 | 618 | — | |
| 1973 | #341 | 638 | — | |
| 1972 | #351 | 633 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #388 | 583 | — | |
| 1970 | #410 | 556 | — | |
| 1969 | #419 | 527 | — | |
| 1968 | #383 | 578 | — | |
| 1967 | #426 | 482 | — | |
| 1966 | #477 | 387 | — | |
| 1965 | #494 | 372 | — | |
| 1964 | #600 | 276 | — | |
| 1963 | #623 | 261 | — | |
| 1962 | #702 | 216 | — | |
| 1961 | #843 | 157 | — | |
| 1960 | #877 | 140 | — | |
| 1959 | #971 | 118 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,041 | 101 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,246 | 71 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,480 | 51 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,733 | 36 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,122 | 25 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,973 | 27 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,023 | 25 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,937 | 13 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Melisa! It came in at #5,243, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1950, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Melisa
- 114 spots since 2024 (#3,047 → #2,933)
- 517 spots since 2020 (#3,450 → #2,933)
- 343 spots since 2015 (#2,590 → #2,933)
- Biggest jump: 141 spots in 1962 (#843 → #702)
- Biggest drop: 262 spots in 2005 (#952 → #1,214)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1973 at #341 (638 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1959–1998
- Highest: 1 in 2,286 girls born in 1973 were named Melisa (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,198 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.8% of all girls named Melisa (5,890) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #5,243 (1948) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 473 | #971 (1959) | #2,026 |
| 1960s | 3,396 | #383 (1968) | #584 |
| 1970s | 5,890 | #341 (1973) | #371 |
| 1980s | 3,885 | #405 (1980) | #540 |
| 1990s | 2,276 | #774 (1992) | #886 |
| 2000s | 1,937 | #952 (2004) | #1,212 |
| 2010s | 932 | #1,633 (2011) | #2,168 |
| 2020s | 312 | #2,933 (2025) | #3,120 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Melisa in 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 2,772 of them was named Melisa, which outranked 96.6% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #379Elisa556
- #380Antoinette555
- #381Jeanne554
- #382Melisa553
- #382Shelby553
- #384Bernadette552
- #385Guadalupe549
- #386Tabatha544
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 328,644 of them was named Melisa, which outranked 14.8% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,016 names at #5,845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.