Mellisa

Where Mellisa comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Mellisa.

  • Vowel-ended
Mellisa through the years
  1. 1952
    First appearance
    #4,908 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Peak, #739
    221 babies named Mellisa, the most in any year.
  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

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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.