Melsa
Melsa reached its high-water mark in 1939 at number 2,922, and has been recorded 9 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1939. About 4 Melsas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 86.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Melsa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9
- Estimated living today
- 4
- Median age today
- 86
- Peak year
- 1939
- Best rank
- 2,922nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1939
Names of 1939
The most popular girls’ names the year Melsa peaked:
Melsa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Melsa | 5 | 7,606th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Melsa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.