Melisande
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About Melisande
This old-time fairy tale name is rarely heard in the modern English-speaking world, but it's so, well, mellifluous, that it would make a lovely choice for a twenty-first century girl--a romanticized tribute to an Aunt Melissa or Melanie.
Pelleas and Melisande is a play by Maeterlinck, the inspiration for the Debussy opera of the same name. In modern times, Melisande became a princess via the Rankin and Bass film The Flight of Dragons. And Broadway buffs might remember Melisande as the name the main character Ella Peterson takes in the musical Bells are Ringing. The name of the beautiful red-haired character on Game of Thrones is spelled Melisandre.
Pronounced MEL-uh-sahnd.
As of October 2026, Melisande ranked #18255 in US births in 2005 SSA, peaked at #5845 in 1947.
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- Mélisande
character in "Pelléas and Mélisande," Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck
- Princess Melisande
character in film The Flight of Dragons
- Melisande
Zuleika Dobson's maid in the book by Max Beerbohm (1911)
- Melisande Shahrizai
noblewoman who plots to dethrone the queen of Terre d'Ange in Jacqueline Carey's 'Kushiel' series.
- Melisande Scott
alias of Ella Peterson in musical 'Bells are Ringing'
- Melisande
character in The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
- "Melisande
" short story by E. Nesbit
- "Melisande
" painting of a woman in red by Marianne Stokes