Melissa

I don't much care for this name (it's probably a generational thing, cf. Donna), although in abstraction I can appreciate it for the following reasons:

1. It means "bee," which is pretty cute. Sisters Melissa, Deborah, Beatrice—how cute would that be[e]!
2. It contains in its folds the Soviet name (see Aviakhim, Tractor) Melis: Marx, Engels, Lenin i ["and"] Stalin. Sorry, America!
3. Sometimes I think I like the names Vanessa and Clarissa—linked, of course, by that -ssa and Vanessa Redgrave portrayal of Clarissa Dalloway—so why not Melissa, too? But sometimes I dislike the names Vanessa and Clarissa—so why not Melissa, too?
4. You could have a fourth sister, Honey. And a brother, Benjamin Netanyahu, called Bibi. Even better, what if they were all WASPs?