Mellisa

Where Mellisa comes from

Mellisa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1952
    First appearance
    #4,908 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Peak, #739
    221 babies named Mellisa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1980
    Mellisa Hollingsworth born
    Canadian skeleton racer
  4. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,397.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mellisa Hollingsworth · Canadian skeleton racer, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.