Melissa

Melissa is a given name for a female child. The name comes from the Greek word μέλισσα (mélissa), "honey bee", which in turn comes from μέλι (meli), "honey". In Hittite melit signifies "honey".
Melissa also refers to the plant Melissa officinalis (Lamiaceae family), known as lemon balm.
Melisa is a common variant form, with others being Malissa, Melesa, Melessa, Meliza, Mellisa, Melosa, and Molissa.
In Ireland it is sometimes used as a feminine form of the Gaelic male name Maoilíosa, which means "servant of Jesus" which is of a different origin and has nothing to do with its Hittite origin.
According to Greek mythology, perhaps reflecting Minoan culture, making her the daughter of a Cretan king Melissos, whose -issos ending is Pre-Greek, Melissa was a nymph who discovered and taught the use of honey and from whom bees were believed to have received their name. She was one of the nymph nurses of Zeus, sister to Amaltheia, but rather than feeding the baby milk, Melissa, appropriately for her name, fed him honey. Or, alternatively, the bees brought honey straight to his mouth. Because of her, Melissa became the name of all the nymphs who cared for the patriarch god as a baby.

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Fem. proper name, from Latin, from Greek (Ionic) melissa (Attic melitta) "honeybee," also "one of the priestesses of Delphi," from PIE *melit-ya, suffixed form of *melit- "honey" (source also of Greek meli, Latin mel "honey; sweetness;" Albanian mjal' "honey;" Old Irish mil "honey," Irish milis "sweet;" Old English mildeaw "nectar," milisc "honeyed, sweet;" Old High German milsken "to sweeten;" Gothic miliþ "honey").

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Honey bee.

Mel, Deborah, Melina, Melinda

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Melissa McCarthy	1970	American actress and comedian
2	Melissa Benoist	1988	Actress
3	Melissa Rauch	1980	American actress
4	Melissa Joan Hart	1976	American actress
5	Melissa Gilbert	1964	Actress, director
6	Melissa McBride	1965	American actress and former casting director
7	Melissa Leo	1960	American actress
8	Melissa George	1976	Australian-American actress
9	Melissa Fumero	1982	American actress
10	Melissa Mathison	1950	American film and television screenwriter
11	Melissa Sue Anderson	1962	Actress
12	Melissa Peterman	1971	American actress
13	Melissa Etheridge	1961	Musician
14	Melissa O'Neil	1988	Canadian singer and actress
15	Melissa Francis	1972	Former child actress, television business news anchor and journalist
16	Melissa Reese	1985	American musician
17	Melissa Rivers	1968	American actress
18	Melissa Harris-Perry	1973	American journalist
19	Melissa Molinaro	1982	Canadian-born American-based actress, singer and model
20	Melissa Rycroft	1983	American cheerleader
21	Melissa Auf der Maur	1972	Canadian musician, photographer and actress
22	Melissa Villaseñor	1987	American comedian/actress
23	Cheerleader Melissa	1982	American wrestler
24	Melissa Newman	1961	American actress
25	Melissa Rosenberg	1962	American screenwriter
26	Melissa Gorga	1979	American reality television personality
27	Melissa Reeves	1967	American actress
28	Melissa Ordway	1983	American actress and model
29	Melissa Ponzio	1972	Film and television actress
30	Melissa Satta	1986	Italian showgirl
31	Melissa Sagemiller	1974	American actress
32	Melissa Jiménez	1987	Spanish journalist
33	Melissa Manchester	1951	American actor and signer
34	Melissa De Sousa	1967	American actress
35	Melissa Hill	1970	American pornographic actress and director
36	Mélissa Theuriau	1978	French journalist
37	Melissa Claire Egan	1981	American actress
38	Melissa Monet	1964	American pornographic actor
39	Melissa Stark	1973	American sports announcer
40	Melissa de la Cruz	1971	American writer
41	Melissa Tkautz	1974	Australian actress, singer-songwriter and model
42	Melissa Coates	1971
43	Melissa Ortiz-Gomez	1982
44	Melissa Hutchison	1975	American voice actor
45	Melissa Drexler	1978	American murderer
46	Melissa Harrington	1982	American pornographic actress, director, adult model, businesswoman
47	Melissa Jaffer	1936	Australian actress
48	Melissa Tang	1985	Actress
49	Melissa Fahn	1973	American voice/stage actress and singer
50	Melissa Bishop	1988	Canadian middle-distance runner
51	Melissa Disney		American actor, writer and producer
52	Melissa Fitzgerald	1965	American actress
53	Melissa Grelo		Canadian television host
54	Melissa James Gibson		Canadian playwright
55	Melissa Doi	1969	American businesswoman, 9/11 victim
56	Melissa Juratowitch	1997	Fashion model
57	Melissa Khalaj	1989	German presenter
58	Melissa d'Arabian	1968	American chef
59	Melissa Pais	1983	Indian actress
60	Melissa Mark-Viverito	1969	American politician
61	Melissa Errico	1970	American actress, songwriter and singer
62	Melissa Reid	1987	Professional golfer
63	Melissa Doyle	1970	Television presenter
64	Melissa Schuman	1984	American actress and singer
65	Melissa Suffield	1992	Character actress
66	Melissa Arnot	1983	American mountain climber
67	Melissa Wu	1992	Australian diver
68	Melissa Karim	1978	Indonesian actress
69	Melissa Lauren	1984	French pornographic actress
70	Melissa Archer	1979	American actress
71	Melissa Farman	1990	American actress
72	Melissa Bachman	1984
73	Melissa Hartwig	1974	American author and the co-creator of the Whole 30 paleo diet program
74	Melissa Marsh	1985	Australian professional basketball player
75	Melissa McIntyre	1986	Canadian actress
76	Melissa Ricks	1990	Filipino actress
77	Melissa Tancredi	1981	Association footballer
78	Melissa Barrera Martínez	1990	Mexican actress and singer. She is best known for starring in La Academia (2011), La Mujer de Judas (2012), La Otra Cara del Alma (2012), Siempre Tuya Acapulco (2014) and Tanto Amor (2015).
79	Melissa Bell	1972	Australian actress
80	Melissa Steel	1993	British singer
81	Melissa Benn	1957	British writer
82	Melissa Eva Barrera	1985	American broadcaster
83	Melissa Cross		American voice coach
84	Melissa Hastings
85	Melissa Porter	1972	English actress
86	Melissa Bardin Galsky	1972	American actress
87	Melissa St. Vil	1983	Haitian boxer
88	Melissa Madden Gray		Australian actor and dancer
89	Melissa Block	1962	American journalist
90	Melissa Altro	1982	Actress
91	Melissa Ohden	1977
92	Melissa Bergland		Australian actress
93	Melissa Ann Friedrich	1935	Canadian criminal
94	Melissa Loza	1983	Peruvian female model
95	Melissa Venema	1995	Dutch trumpeter
96	Melissa Garcia	1980
97	Melissa Farley	1942	American psychologist
98	Melissa Marr	1972	American writer
99	Melissa Bean	1962	American politician
100	Melissa DiMarco	1969	Canadian actress
101	Melissa Stribling	1929	Scottish film and television actress
102	Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin	1981	French Canadian actress
103	Melissa Ng	1972	Hong Kong actor
104	Melissa Stockwell	1980	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
105	Melissa Tapper	1990	Australian female table tennis player Paralympian
106	Melissa Ferrick	1970	American musician
107	Melissa Baker	1987	American model
108	Melissa Horton
109	Melissa Marty	1984	Puerto Rican beauty pageant contestant
110	Melissa Mendez	1964	Actress
111	Melissa Melendez		Californian Politician
112	Melissa Keller	1979	Actress, model
113	Melissa Michaelsen	1968	American child actress and public speaker
114	Melissa McClelland	1979	Canadian singer-songwriter
115	Melissa Odabash	1964	American fashion designer
116	Melissa Franklin	1956	Particle physicist
117	Melissa Febos	1980	American writer
118	Melissa Haro	1987	American model
119	Melissa Anelli	1979	American author/webmistress
120	Melissa Bolona		American mode, actor and philanthropist
121	Melissa Morgan	1980	American musician
122	Melissa Chan	1980	American journalist
123	Melissa Humana-Paredes	1992	Canadian beach volleyball player
124	Melissa Murray Bailey
125	Melissa Chiu	1972	Australian museum director
126	Melissa Henderson	1989	American soccer player
127	Melissa Parke	1966	Australian politician
128	Melissa Breen	1990	Australian sprinter
129	Melissa Panarello	1985	Italian writer
130	Melissa Naschenweng	1990
131	Melissa Horn	1987	Swedish singer
132	Melissa Müller	1967	Austrian writer
133	Melissa Griffiths	1957
134	Melissa Lee	1966	New Zealand politician
135	Melissa Blake		Canadian politician
136	Melissa Ludtke	1951	American journalist
137	Melissa Calderon	1984
138	Melissa Lawson	1976	American musician
139	Melissa Davis		American actress
140	Melissa Hart		American actress
141	Melissa Walton	1990	British actress
142	Melissa Barbieri	1980	Association football player
143	Melissa Howard	1989	Australian actress
144	Melissa Martínez	1979	Colombian actress
145	Melissa Winter	1967	American politician
146	Melissa Elias	1985	Canadian actress
147	Paula Melissa	1974	Brazilian actress
148	Melissa McDermott		American journalist
149	Melissa-Ashley	1978	American pornographic film actress
150	Melissa Mars	1981	Actress and singer from France
151	Melissa Holliday	1969	American model
152	Melissa Gurgel	1994	Brazilian model
153	Melissa Graham	1975	British singer
154	Melissa Hortman	1970	American politician
155	Melissa Witek	1981	American model
156	Melissa Fay Greene	1952	American writer
157	Melissa Bank	1961	American writer
158	Melissa Downes	1971	Australian journalist
159	Melissa Seidemann	1990	Water polo player
160	Melissa Hathaway	1968	Cybersecurity expert
161	Melissa Ferlaak	1979	Singer
162	Melissa Chimenti	1948	Italian actress
163	Melissa Bartolini	1987	Italian actress
164	Melissa Moore		American pornographic actress
165	Melissa Gira Grant	1978	American journalist
166	Melissa Marshall		Australian actress
167	Melissa Forman		Radio personality; Television personality
168	Melissa Belote	1956	American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder, swimming coach
169	Melissa Kite		Journalist
170	Melissa M	1985	French R&B singer
171	Melissa Russo	1968	American television journalist
172	Melissa Gonzalez	1989	American field hockey player
173	Melissa Vargas	1999	Cuban volleyball player
174	Melissa Paull	1980	Actress, stand-up comic
175	Melissa Jacobs	1981	American pornographic actor
176	Melissa Gregory	1981	Figure skater
177	Melissa Murphy		Chef
178	Melissa Hamilton	1989
179	Melissa Jones	1988	American actor and television actor
180	Melissa Jo Peltier
181	Melissa Price	1963	Australian politician
182	Melissa Pritchard	1948	American writer
183	Melissa Roxburgh	1992
184	Melissa Long		American journalist
185	Melissa Chaty	1984	American beauty queen
186	Melissa Hoskins	1991	Australian female cyclist
187	Mélissa Nkonda	1990	Singer
188	Melissa Jarrett
189	Melissa van der Schyff		Canadian actress
190	Mélissa Laveaux	1985	Canadian singer
191	Melissa Mayeux	1998	French baseball player
192	Melissa Bacelar	1979	American actress
193	Melissa Hayden		American poker player
194	Melissa S. May		American judge
195	Melissa Perello	1976	Chef
196	Melissa Thomas	1974	American actress
197	Melissa Galianos	1979	Canadian actress
198	Melissa Peachey	1980	British television personality
199	Melissa Ann Tan	1981	Malaysian model
200	Melissa York	1969	American drummer