Melisa

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Melisa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Melisa: Recorded since 1976, it reached #353 in 2016, and it stood at #379 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
57times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#353highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#753
1997	#897
1998	#758
1999	#842
2000	#645
2001	#627
2002	#616
2003	#818
2004	#638
2005	#916
2006	#770
2007	#655
2008	#734
2009	#630
2010	#878
2011	#915
2012	#887
2013	#944
2014	#731
2015	#860
2016	#703
2017	#771
2018	#641
2019	#562
2020	#655
2021	#688
2022	#655
2023	#555
2024	#751

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 23 of the 50 years from 1976 to 2025.

In 2025: #379 among girls in Norway, #483 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1976–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1976
First recorded at #497 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1976 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2016–2018
Highest recorded position: #353 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2016 (recorded 2016–2018).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #379 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Melisa appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,334 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1976.

Melisa across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Melisa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#497 (1976)	#375 (2020)	#483 (2025)	23 of 50	104 (1976–2025)	10 (2020)
England and Wales · Girls	#753 (1996)	#555 (2023)	#751 (2024)	29 of 29	1,334 (1996–2024)	72 (2019)
Norway · Girls	#423 (2022)	#379 (2025)	#379 (2025)	3 of 4	18 (2022–2025)	8 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#353 (2016)	#353 (2016)	#434 (2018)	2 of 3	7 (2016–2018)	4 (2016)

Melisa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Melisa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	110	4 of 10	28
2000s	434	10 of 10	43
2010s	501	10 of 10	50
2020sbusiest	289	5 of 10	58

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 58 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Melisa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1976 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #353 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Melisa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#751	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#555	70	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#688	55	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#562	72	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#641	63	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#771	51	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#703	58	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#860	43	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#731	54	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#944	39	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#887	42	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#915	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#878	40	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#630	59	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#734	48	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#655	53	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#770	40	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#916	30	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#638	47	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#818	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#616	45	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#627	41	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#645	39	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#842	26	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#758	30	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#753	30	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#379	8	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#524	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#423	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#375	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#581	6	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	5	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1976 and 2025, ranked in 34 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #353, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 72 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 46 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Melissa · #2, 64y
Melita · #660, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Henri · #353, 30y
Marianna · #353, 31y
Ameera · #354, 30y
Jess · #355, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Marianna · #353, 31y
Alena · #350, 30y
Ericka · #356, 23y
Karena · #349, 25y

Melisa was ranked #353 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Melisa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Melisa without appearing here.

Melisa moved ahead of

Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #916 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #770 and #1585.
Tracy Compare
In 1997 they stood at #897 and #820 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #758 and #1392.
Sinead Compare
In 2015 they stood at #860 and #722 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #703 and #1241.
Tayla Compare
In 2015 they stood at #860 and #760 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #703 and #1241.

Moved ahead of Melisa

Ivy Compare
In 2004 they stood at #638 and #758 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #916 and #494.
Alyssa Compare
In 1996 they stood at #753 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #897 and #506.
Summer Compare
In 2005 they stood at #490 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2006 that had become #635 and #272.
Riley Compare
In 2014 they stood at #731 and #763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #860 and #539.

Moved the same way as Melisa

Barbara Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Melisa went from #497 to #856 and Barbara from #67 to #856.
Diane Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Melisa went from #497 to #856 and Diane from #152 to #727.
Monica Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Melisa went from #497 to #856 and Monica from #191 to #727.
Susan Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Melisa went from #497 to #856 and Susan from #20 to #856.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1976 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #353 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Melisa

Melisa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Melisa across 4 official records

Melisa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Melisa appears in

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Melisa across 4 official records

Melisa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

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