Melicent

Meaning

Melicent is usually treated as a variant of Millicent, though older name books also connect it with Melissa-like forms. In those sources, the name is glossed with ideas of “honey-sweet” and sometimes linked to bee/honey imagery. The excerpted etymologies are not fully consistent, so the safest takeaway is that Melicent is an old Romance-influenced name associated with sweetness and elegance.

Origin

Fun fact

Nineteenth-century writers note that Melicent was known in England from medieval use and was sometimes confused with Melissa or spelled Millicent.