Melissa Louwagie

(female) From the Greek word melissa ‘honey bee’. It is the name of the good witch who releases Rogero from the power of the bad witch Alcina in Ariosto's narrative poem Orlando Furioso (1532). The name was fairly popular in the 1990s, along with other girls’ names sharing the same first syllable.

Belgian French: of uncertain origin. It is probably an altered form, under Dutch influence, of French Louage, from le gage ‘the pledge’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a bailiff who enforced debt collection or possibly for a pawnbroker.