About the name Mellisa
Mellisa 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, Mellisa first appears in Social Security records in 1952. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #740 in 1979, and in 2024 5 babies received the name — 4,575 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.