About the name Melisa
Melisa 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, Melisa first appears in Social Security records in 1948. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #342 in 1973, and in 2024 53 babies received the name — 19,054 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.