Entry № 6761 · Greek origin

Mellisa Mellisa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Honeybee"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "honeybee".

Mellisa is a variant spelling of Melissa, meaning a honeybee.

Honeybee — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Mellisa
Transliteration
Mellisa
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Mellisa stands.

Mellisa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mellisas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Mellisa.

The number behind Mellisa.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mellisa reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.