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Melissa

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Μελισσα (Melissa)

Greek μελισσα (melissa) = 'bee' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Bee
Bee
Image by Hans Hillewaert,[6]
licensed under Creative Commons

Related Names

Melisa ♀
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Melissa ♀
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Melizza ♀
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 Danish Swedish
Miliisa ♀
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 Greenlandic
Milîsa ♀
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Milissa ♀
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 Swedish

See also Lissi, Melis (Turkish), Melitta, Mella, Missa

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Melissuson Iceland

Female

Melissudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Melissa
Genitive: Melissas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Melissa
Genitive: Melissan
Partitive: Melissaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Melissa
Accusative: Melissu
Dative: Melissu
Genitive: Melissu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Melissa
Genitive: Melissas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Melissa
Genitive: Melissas

Name Days

Finland Finland

5 May

Norway Norway

13 July

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

5 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Lindy Melissa Løvbræk Wiik (born 7 February 1985), Norwegian footballer

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[10]
3807 4727 3805 4725 2 2
Denmark Denmark[11]
1691
n.a.
 1691
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 2610
n.a.
 2610 0 0
Iceland Iceland[13]
21 27
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
11 15
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
1134
n.a.
 1134
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Melissa (f) Sources: [10][11][15][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Melissa (f) Sources: [16]


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Hans Hillewaert, source & license
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. ↑ Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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