Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Melisa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melisa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Melisa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Melisa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Melisa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Melisa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Melisa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melisa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 100%
1952 25 0.000006582 25 100%
1953 27 0.000007006 27 100%
1954 25 0.00000628 25 100%
1955 36 0.000008966 36 100%
1956 51 0.00001237 51 100%
1957 71 0.000016896 71 100%
1958 101 0.000024432 101 100%
1959 118 0.000028379 118 100%
1960 140 0.000033704 140 100%
1961 157 0.000037902 157 100%
1962 216 0.000053527 216 100%
1963 261 0.000065939 261 100%
1964 276 0.000070995 276 100%
1965 372 0.000102608 372 100%
1966 387 0.000111346 387 100%
1967 482 0.000141978 482 100%
1968 578 0.000171086 578 100%
1969 527 0.000151641 527 100%
1970 556 0.000154165 556 100%
1971 583 0.000169854 583 100%
1972 638 0.000202991 633 5 98%
1973 638 0.000211476 638 100%
1974 618 0.00020329 618 100%
1975 548 0.000181493 548 100%
1976 546 0.000179943 546 100%
1977 558 0.000175665 553 5 98%
1978 554 0.00017455 554 100%
1979 661 0.000198677 661 100%
1980 566 0.00016432 566 100%
1981 516 0.00014916 516 100%
1982 428 0.000122008 428 100%
1983 385 0.000111164 385 100%
1984 376 0.000107775 376 100%
1985 379 0.000106189 379 100%
1986 328 0.000092211 328 100%
1987 298 0.000082649 298 100%
1988 337 0.000091203 337 100%
1989 272 0.000070751 272 100%
1990 264 0.000066794 264 100%
1991 265 0.000068031 265 100%
1992 266 0.000069248 266 100%
1993 236 0.000062595 236 100%
1994 217 0.00005837 217 100%
1995 197 0.000053793 197 100%
1996 190 0.000052095 190 100%
1997 231 0.000063711 231 100%
1998 214 0.000058181 214 100%
1999 196 0.000053061 196 100%
2000 213 0.000056351 213 100%
2001 216 0.000057702 216 100%
2002 200 0.0000535 200 100%
2003 228 0.000059963 228 100%
2004 253 0.000066214 253 100%
2005 188 0.000048897 188 100%
2006 189 0.000047773 189 100%
2007 163 0.000040774 163 100%
2008 153 0.000038925 153 100%
2009 134 0.000035077 134 100%
2010 129 0.000034905 129 100%
2011 132 0.000036087 132 100%
2012 126 0.000034451 126 100%
2013 110 0.000030173 110 100%
2014 83 0.000022394 83 100%
2015 69 0.000018644 69 100%
2016 73 0.000019898 73 100%
2017 74 0.000020692 74 100%
2018 69 0.000019625 69 100%
2019 67 0.000019303 67 100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 100%
2021 53 0.000015644 53 100%
2022 51 0.000015075 51 100%
2023 54 0.000016308 54 100%
2024 53 0.000015923 53 100%

Explore other names

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