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Milissa

The girl's name Milissa has been in the national records since 1950, with 3,003 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2008. About 2,800 Milissas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Milissa

By the numbers

Total US births
3,003
Estimated living today
2,800
Median age today
52
Peak year
1968
Best rank
783rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1950

How old the living Milissas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,003 babies given the name since 1950, about 2,800 are alive — 93 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Milissa is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Milissa is most concentrated in Ohio (2.3×), Michigan (2.2×), Minnesota (2.0×), Pennsylvania (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1968

The most popular girls’ names the year Milissa peaked:

All the names of 1968

Milissa elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Milissa 49 2,416th
France girls Milissa 25 7,711th
Poland girls Milissa 2 birth registrations 724th

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.

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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.