About the name Malissa
Malissa belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Malissa first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #348 in 1880, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 8,858 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.