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NAMES LIKE MELISSA
Same rise and fall as Melissa, around the same years.
WHERE MELISSA IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Melissa ranked highest in California (#454) and lowest in Michigan (#1,608). 17 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Melissa name popularity
Melissa has been given to 762,623 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1979, when 34,179 babies got the name, and its best rank was #10 in 1979.
In 2025, 747 babies were named Melissa (#858 in the country), 98% below the peak. That is down 42% from 2015.
Almost every Melissa is a girl.
An estimated 715K people named Melissa are alive in the US today, with a median age of 47.
It was a top-100 name in 33 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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