Melisa

Where Melisa comes from

Melisa 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. 1948
    First appearance
    #5,243 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Peak, #341
    638 babies named Melisa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1985
    Melisa Sözen born
    Turkish actor
  4. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #636.
  5. 1991
    Melisa Aslı Pamuk born
    Miss Turkey 2011, contestant at Miss Universe 2011, actress and model
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Melisa Sözen · Turkish actor, born 1985
  • Melisa Aslı Pamuk · Miss Turkey 2011, contestant at Miss Universe 2011, actress and model, born 1991
  • Melisa Döngel · Turkish actor and fashion model, born 1999
  • Melisa Wallack · screenwriter, film director, and former business manager, born 1968
  • Melisa Şenolsun · Turkish actor, born 1996

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.