Given name & surname
Melitta
“as sweet as honey”
Melitta is a variant of Melita. One Greek interpretation is “as sweet as honey.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Melitta is a variant of Melita. One Greek interpretation is “as sweet as honey.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In German use, Melitta is a variant of Melissa. An origin associated with Melissa is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In German use, Melitta is a variant of Melissa. The history of Melissa gives this family its wider story. In Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Melissa is the benevolent witch who frees Rogero from Alcina. Separately, Melissa has also been used in Ireland as an English form of Maoilíosa; the two contexts should not be collapsed into one origin.
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Melitta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 83
- 0 boys · 83 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 351 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Melitta’s family of names
In English usage, Melitta has a diminutive in Mel. In German usage, Melitta has a related form in Melissa. In German usage, Melitta has a conventional equivalent in the English form Melissa.
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Around the world
Melitta has relatives in 7 languages.
18 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- MalissaEnglish
- MelikaHawaiian
- Littaequivalent
- MellisaEnglish
- MelyssaEnglish
- MelisseEnglish
- MeliseEnglish
- MelessaEnglish
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People named Melitta
- Melitta BrunnerAustrian figure skater (1907–2003)
- Melitta SollmannEast German lugerborn 1958
- Melitta Rühngymnastborn 1965
- Melitta Schenk Gräfin von StauffenbergGerman female aviator and test pilot in German Luftwaffe dive bombers during World War II1903–1945
- Melitta MarxerLiechtensteiner activist1923–2015
- Melitta SchmidebergBritish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1904-1983)
- Melitta MuszelyAustrian opera singer (1927–2023)
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