Quick answers about Mellisa
How many people are named Mellisa?
An estimated 4,233 living Americans are named Mellisa.
How rare is Mellisa?
Mellisa fell below the SSA's 5-birth reporting floor in 2025. It is extremely rare as a new baby name.
How old is the typical Mellisa?
The median age of a living American named Mellisa is approximately 45 years, with most bearers falling between 38 and 52 years old.
Is Mellisa still popular?
Not especially. Mellisa has been declining since its 1979 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is Mellisa most common?
Mellisa has its strongest geographic signal in New York, where it appears 2.1× more often than the national baseline.
1952Peak 19792025
Where it lives now
Mellisa is most concentrated in New York — about 2.1× the national rate in the 1990s. It also runs high in California.
States where Mellisa is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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