Jaleesa
Jaleesa was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 3,267 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,200 Americans named Jaleesa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 32 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaleesa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaleesa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,188, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
718 babies in 1988, the peak
Jaleesa peaked in 1988, when 718 girls were given it, #345 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,188 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,680 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,302 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,410 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,951 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,964 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,358 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,523 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,989 | 0.03 |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,799 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 18 | #6,828 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,847 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,255 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,022 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,436 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,829 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,802 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,413 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,445 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,762 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,755 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,009 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,321 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,909 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,331 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,822 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,443 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,183 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,686 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,285 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,825 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 128 | #1,313 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 255 | #791 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 252 | #810 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 338 | #657 | 0.18 |
| 1989 | 579 | #429 | 0.31 |
| 1988 | 718 | #345 | 0.40 |
| 1987 | 116 | #1,230 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaleesa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaleesa has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 38 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaleesa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaleesa, and how old are they?
3,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,267 Americans ever recorded as Jaleesa. The median Jaleesa alive today is 36 years old; half are between 32 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 2,574 people named Jaleesa (2,572 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 266 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jaleesa born?
The states with the most babies named Jaleesa are New York, Texas and Florida, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 296 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 203 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 177 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 151 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 142 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 129 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 122 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 118 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| New Jersey | 103 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 93 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Jaleesa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaleesa is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1987 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jaleesa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,644 babies since 1880, Jaleesa is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 none of their 65 babies recorded by SSA was a Jaleesa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jaleesa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jaleesa and names like it
- Compare Jaleesa and JalisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJaleesa peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaleesa since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jaleesa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jaleesa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.