girl name · Source-indexed record
Melissa
مليسة
Melissa is a Greek name for girls that means honey-bee. It can also refer to the plant known as lemon balm in English, whose scientific name is Melissa officinalis.
- Arabic spelling
- مليسة
- Pronunciation
- meh-LIHS-sahAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- ArabicLinguistic inference
- Gender
- girl
- First letter
- M
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Melissa
Melissa is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a female name. The source records its meaning as “Melissa is a Greek name for girls that means honey-bee. It can also refer to the plant known as lemon balm in English, whose scientific name is Melissa officinalis.”. Its origin label is inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Its reader-friendly phonetic spelling is generated deterministically from the published transliteration and should be reviewed for names with complex or region-specific pronunciation.
Meaning and Arabic spelling are sourced from the Muslim Names Dataset or, where provided, the record-specific provenance URL. Origin labels are source-stated where available or transparently inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Phonetic respellings are generated reading guides, not native-speaker recordings. See Sources & methodology for data limitations.