Jalissa
#5,800 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jalissa has been given to 3,526 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #5,800 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 172 recorded.
Babies named Jalissa, 2025
1 in 158,000
Jalissa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jalissa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 76,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,800
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jalissa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jalissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jalissas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jalissa was born before 2003 — so the typical Jalissa is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 33.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,526
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (1,164).
Is Jalissa 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
- −1,379
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,599
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,229
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.30×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.2%
- Peak was 1988 (172)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.4% average annual change
Spellings of Jalissa
Jalissa is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 48.8% against Jalissa's 0.23%.
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 Jalissa is used
Across 1910–2025, Jalissa was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 58,354 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 20,000
- 2New York1 in 33,333
- 3Texas1 in 33,333
- 4California1 in 50,000
- 5Illinois1 in 50,000
- 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
- 7Alabama1 in 100,000
- 8Arizona1 in 100,000
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. Jalissa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jalissa around the world
Where Jalissa 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.
- Canada1991–2006#2,939in 2006
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Jalissa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jalissa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jalissa
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jalissa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jalissa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.