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The table below indicates the number of times the name Melissa has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Melissa**
Use of the Name Melissa for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
1,640	1,640	613	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Melissa has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Melissa**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880			274	33
1881			256	40
1882			276	41
1883			276	42
1884			279	48
1885			299	45
1886			274	58
1887			370	34
1888			384	40
1889			355	46
1890			390	42
1891			469	31
1892			469	34
1893			372	53
1894			392	52
1895			448	41
1896			562	30
1897			495	35
1898			539	35
1899			427	47
1900			537	40
1901			527	34
1902			505	40
1903			553	35
1904			719	24
1905			650	30
1906			787	22
1907			629	36
1908			753	27
1909			700	33
1910			614	47
1911			785	31
1912			775	42
1913			771	47
1914			811	52
1915			801	68
1916			856	64
1917			951	54
1918			907	63
1919
1920			959	59
1921			931	64
1922			884	69
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930			987	56
1931
1932			897	62
1933			967	51
1934
1935			873	63
1936			918	56
1937			717	89
1938			748	86
1939			640	115
1940			714	96
1941			593	141
1942			595	156
1943			549	188
1944			539	179
1945			534	185
1946			567	198
1947			460	320
1948			315	601
1949			276	776
1950			240	977
1951			229	1,128
1952			201	1,441
1953			163	2,010
1954			170	2,058
1955			150	2,412
1956			150	2,529
1957			147	2,777
1958			129	3,323
1959			126	3,630
1960			109	4,417
1961			95	4,897
1962			68	6,313
1963			61	7,315
1964			53	8,319
1965			38	10,564
1966			22	14,247
1967			9	18,365
1968	945	60	6	21,723
1969	914	70	5	23,012
1970	960	70	7	23,730
1971	943	75	7	23,863
1972	880	84	7	22,474
1973	919	77	6	22,477
1974	865	86	7	22,156
1975	869	92	4	24,169
1976	886	89	3	25,074
1977	880	93	2	26,874
1978	848	102	2	28,305
1979	763	129	2	34,027
1980	748	138	4	31,610
1981	915	96	5	27,980
1982	846	110	5	25,838
1983	874	101	6	23,466
1984	979	83	8	21,878
1985	994	85	11	19,955
1986			12	17,649
1987			13	17,653
1988			16	16,516
1989			19	15,207
1990			20	13,989
1991			20	13,339
1992			24	11,697
1993			30	10,212
1994			31	8,791
1995			35	7,865
1996			42	7,158
1997			45	6,669
1998			59	5,351
1999			64	4,823
2000			71	4,514
2001			74	4,138
2002			81	3,753
2003			96	3,487
2004			100	3,271
Totals:		1,640		726,641

During the last 125 years, parents have used Melissa as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Melissa appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 18 times during the last 125 years.

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