Melissa
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| Pronunciation | Melissa |
| Gender | Female |
| Meaning | honey bee |
| Region of Origin | Greek |
| Origin | Greek |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Melissa |
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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, dropping steadily from its peak of second place in 1977. It was among the top ten most popular names for girls from 1967 to 1984[2] Ironically 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).[citation needed]
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[edit] 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.[citation needed]
[edit] Computing
- Melissa (computer worm), a mass-mailing macro virus
- 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.
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