Entry № 6939 · English origin

Missy Missy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MIS-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Beloved (Missy Elliott; Missy Franklin Olympic gold)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "beloved (missy elliott; missy franklin olympic gold)".

Missy is the English diminutive of Melissa — from the Greek melissa (honeybee) — or of Mary/Miriam (Hebrew Miryam, "beloved"). Co-wrote songs for Aaliyah, Tweet, and Janet Jackson.

Beloved (Missy Elliott; Missy Franklin Olympic gold) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Missy
Transliteration
Missy
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɪs.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Missy stands.

Missy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Missys before her.

Real people
Missy Elliott
American rapper.
born 1971
Missy Franklin
American Olympic swimmer.
born 1995
In fiction
Missy
Big Mouth.
2017

Names connected to Missy.

The number behind Missy.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Missy reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.