How Many People Are Named Melyssa?
people named Melyssa are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 173,318 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,023 babies named Melyssa in Social Security records from 1965 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
121 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of MELISSA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Melyssa in English. Counting Melyssa and these spellings together, about 720,124 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Melyssa in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Melyssa alive today is about 32 years old, and 63% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 24 and 39 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Melyssa first appears in the records in 1965 and was given most often in 1989, to 121 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1965 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Melyssa has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,303, in 1989.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,303 (1989) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,135 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Melyssa alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Melyssa were born in California than in any other state: about 386 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Melyssa was given 3.9 times as often in California, 1.6 times in New York and 1.6 times in Texas.
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