"Form of Melissa"
The name Malyssa is commonly a female name from the "Greek" origin.
Malyssa is a respelling of Melissa, with y in place of the i and a single s. The difference is orthographic rather than etymological, so Malyssa has no separate root or meaning of its own; it carries the history of Melissa. The spelling first appears in United States birth records in 1979.
Melissa means "Honey bee, Sweet like honey".
The pronunciation of Malyssa is muh-LISS-uh.
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