Mellissa

Where Mellissa comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Mellissa.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Mellissa through the years
  1. 1926
    First appearance
    #4,851 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Mellissa Fung born
    Canadian journalist
  3. 1979
    Peak, #639
    272 babies named Mellissa, the most in any year.
  4. 1986
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,097.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, a nonstandard spelling variant of Melissa.
Namesakes
  • Mellissa Fung · Canadian journalist, born 1972

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.