How to write “Melissa” in Korean

멜리사 mel-li-sa Listen to 멜리사, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

What Korean friends call you

• 멜리사야 mel-li-sa-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 멜리사 씨 mel-li-sa-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Melissa

The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 멀리사; most Koreans write 멜리사.

Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Melissa McCarthy 멜리사 (sometimes 멀리사); Melissa Benoist 멜리사 (sometimes 멀리사); Melissa Etheridge 멜리사.

Well-known people named Melissa, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Melissa Fumero — 멜리사 푸메로
• Melissa Barrera — 멜리사 바레라
• Melissa Hortman — 멜리사 호트먼
• Melissa Roxburgh — 멜리사 록스버그

734,605 babies were named Melissa in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 42nd most common name.

Block by block

• 멜 = ㅁ + ㅔ + ㄹ · 9 strokes
  • ㅁ 미음 (m) · 3 strokes
  • ㅔ 에 (e) · 3 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes

  Also in 멜: Amelia 아멜리아 · Melanie 멜라니 · Melody 멜로디

• 리 = ㄹ + ㅣ · 4 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes
  • ㅣ 이 (i) · 1 stroke

  Also in 리: Emily 에밀리 · Christopher 크리스토퍼 · William 윌리엄

• 사 = ㅅ + ㅏ · 4 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅏ 아 (a) · 2 strokes

  Also in 사: Samantha 사만다 · Samuel 사무엘 · Sarah 사라

멜리사 takes 17 strokes in all.

More names: Jake 제이크 · Maya 마야 · Vincent 빈센트 · Marcus 마커스 · Aaliyah 알리야

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