Jaleesa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jaleesa has been given to 3,267 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1988, with 718 recorded.
Babies named Jaleesa, 2024
1 in 557,000
Jaleesa over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jaleesa?
Jaleesa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jaleesa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaleesa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jaleesas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaleesa was born before 1990 — so the typical Jaleesa is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 43.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,261
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (1,413).
Is Jaleesa rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1988 (718)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.1% average annual change
Spellings of Jaleesa
Jaleesa is not the most common spelling — Janessa is, with 21.8% against Jaleesa's 4.8%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Jaleesa is used
Across 1910–2025, Jaleesa was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 62,486 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 3South Carolina1 in 25,000
- 4Alabama1 in 33,333
- 5Florida1 in 33,333
- 6Georgia1 in 33,333
- 7North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 8Arkansas1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jaleesa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jaleesa around the world
Where Jaleesa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2018–2019#5,591in 2019
- Canada1991–2021#2,930in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Jaleesa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Jaleesa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jaleesa
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jaleesa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jaleesa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.