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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Latin spelling of Μελισσα (Melissa)
Greek μελισσα (melissa) = 'bee' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
![Bee](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Apis_mellifera_%28in_flight%29.jpg/200px-Apis_mellifera_%28in_flight%29.jpg) |
Bee
Image by Hans Hillewaert,[6] licensed under Creative Commons |
Related Names
See also Lissi, Melis (Turkish), Melitta, Mella, Missa
Male
Melissuson
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Female
Melissudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Melissa
|
Genitive: |
Melissas
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Melissa
|
Genitive: |
Melissan
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Partitive: |
Melissaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Melissa
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Accusative: |
Melissu
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Dative: |
Melissu
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Genitive: |
Melissu
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Melissa
|
Genitive: |
Melissas
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Melissa
|
Genitive: |
Melissas
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Name Days
Finland
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5 May
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Norway
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13 July
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![Finland (Swedish Language)](https://www.nordicnames.de/img/flags/fi.png) Finland (Swedish Language)
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5 May
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Lindy Melissa Løvbræk Wiik (born 7 February 1985), Norwegian footballer
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[10] |
|
3807 |
4727 |
3805 |
4725 |
2 |
2 |
Denmark[11] |
|
1691 |
n.a. |
1691 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
2610 |
n.a. |
2610 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[13] |
|
21 |
27 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[14] |
|
11 |
15 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
1134 |
n.a. |
1134 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [10][11][15][12]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [16]
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Hans Hillewaert, source & license
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables