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.
Where Melisa is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#549 · 1 in 3,848
- Missouri#588 · 1 in 4,221
- California#674 · 1 in 4,689
- Maryland#677 · 1 in 4,942
- Florida#684 · 1 in 5,195
Best ever in a state: #133 in Wyoming, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #549 | 11 | 1 in 3,848 |
| Missouri | #588 | 7 | 1 in 4,221 |
| California | #674 | 49 | 1 in 4,689 |
| Maryland | #677 | 5 | 1 in 4,942 |
| Florida | #684 | 14 | 1 in 5,195 |
| New York | #765 | 18 | 1 in 5,796 |
| Texas | #839 | 22 | 1 in 6,343 |
| Virginia | #840 | 5 | 1 in 6,829 |
| Georgia | #884 | 6 | 1 in 6,918 |
| Illinois | #1,071 | 8 | 1 in 8,931 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 9,226 of them was named Melisa, which outranked 93.8% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #985Yaritza192
- #988Jessi191
- #988Leeann191
- #990Melisa190
- #990Blake190
- #990China190
- #990Kimberley190
- #995Alivia189
- #995Leann189
- #995Luisa189
Tied with 4 names at #990; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.