Melissa is a given name for a female. It has a Greek origin, meaning honey bee.

In 2007, Melissa was the 137th most popular name for girls born in the United States. It was among the top ten most popular names for girls from 1967 to 1984 Interestingly, this peak in popularity was right after the band The Allman Brothers wrote a popular ballad entitled 'Melissa'. Melissa also refers to the plant known as lemon balm (family Lamiaceae; genus and species Melissa officinalis). Fact: date=July 2008

In Greek mythology

In Greek mythology Melissa is the name of one of the nymphs who helped save Zeus from his father, Cronus. She hid him in the hills and fed him milk from Amalthea and honey. When Cronus discovered this, he turned her into a worm. After Zeus came into power, he changed her into a queen bee, not being able to change her from an insect form but Melissa was still happy as she liked being a queen bee much better than being a nymph. Fact: date=June 2008

Computing

• Melissa (Butterfly), A helpful link to get between different webpages
• Melissa (Security), (Méthode d'évaluation de la vulnérabilité résiduelle des systèmes d'information), is a now abandoned method for evaluationg the residual vulnerability of Information Systems.

External links

• Baby names