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Meaning & Origins
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.
| 45th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): alternative spelling of Malakov, of uncertain origin; perhaps a shortened Malakhovsky, a habitational name from the village of Malakhovtsy in Belarus.
| 89,172nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Melisa, Melissia, Melisha, Melisse, Melida, Meliza, Melis, Melicia, Meliss, Melika
Malave, Malan, Malagon, Malatesta, Malak, Malay, Malachowski, Malarkey, Malanga, Malachi
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