Melisa
A girls’ name of Greek origin, meaning bee; a spelling variant of Melissa.
Melisa by the numbers
In 2025, 47 babies in England and Wales were named Melisa. In the US, 74 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 661 babies in 1979, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Melissa
Like Melisa, each of these traces back to Melissa: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Millihoney bee; diminutive of Melissa or Millicent3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lissabee; a form of Melissa14 in the US (2017)
- Lissethbee; a form of Melissa14 in the US (2017)
- Melliehoney; a form of Melissa12 in the US (2017)
- Melihoney; a form of Melissa or Melina3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Melizavariant of Melissa; honey bee5 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Melisa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Melissahoney bee1,168 in the US (2017)
- Melinahoney; form of Melissa or Melina486 in the US (2017)
- Meliaa form of Amelia; hardworking106 in the US (2017)
- Melishoney bee6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Melihahandsome graceful elegant feminine form6 in the US (2017)
- Melitahoney; variant of melissa or melita6 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Melisa
Names that are said the same way as Melisa, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Other names that mean a bee
Like Melisa, each of these has a bee in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Deborahbee68 in England and Wales (2025)
- Honeysweet substance made by bees253 in England and Wales (2025)
- Pamelaall honey; literary coinage by Philip Sidney153 in the US (2017)
- Melindahoney; a blend of Melissa and Belinda128 in the US (2017)
- Devorahbee; Hebrew spelling of Deborah108 in the US (2017)
- Deborabee; a form of Deborah97 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Melisa
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