Melisa Girl
How popular is Melisa?
#2,933 girl name in 2025
57 baby girls were named Melisa in the US in 2025, making it the 2933rd most popular girl name.
Melisa popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,933 for girls (▲ 114 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 57 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-17% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,590 in 2015, #3,450 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1979 (661 girls) |
| Highest rank | #341 in 1973 |
| First recorded | 1948 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Melisa counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Melissa family of names ranked #386 for girls in 2025 (#364 the year before), with 810 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Melisa is most popular
Babies named Melisa per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 girls)
Melisa by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #5,241 |
| 1950s | 473 | #970 |
| 1960s | 3,396 | #383 |
| 1970s | 5,890 | #341 |
| 1980s | 3,885 | #405 |
| 1990s | 2,276 | #772 |
| 2000s | 1,937 | #952 |
| 2010s | 932 | #1,633 |
| 2020s | 312 | #2,933 |
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Questions
- Is Melisa a boy or girl name?
- Melisa is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Melisa were girls.
- How popular is the name Melisa?
- 57 baby girls were named Melisa in the US in 2025, making it the 2933rd most popular girl name.
- When was Melisa most popular?
- Melisa peaked in 1979, when 661 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #341 in 1973.
- How many people are named Melisa?
- 19,121 babies have been named Melisa in the US since 1880. We estimate about 18,239 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 46.
- Where is Melisa most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Melisa was most common in Florida, at 0.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.