Melissa
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#420
down −41 places
2025 births
747
down −79 births
All-time births
760,128
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1979
- 34,050 births
- Best rank
- #2
- in 1977
- First recorded
- 1880
- #274 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1980
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 197934,050#2Peak
- 198031,629#4
- 197828,327#2
- 198128,005#5
- 197726,879#2
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #2 in 1977 · peak births 34,050 in 1979
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
2,495 boys · 760,128 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Melissa has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.