Jalessa
Jalessa was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 685 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalessa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalessa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,102, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
150 babies in 1988, the peak
Jalessa peaked in 1988, when 150 girls were given it, #1,059 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #15,102 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,388 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,634 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,106 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,934 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,120 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,511 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,917 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,573 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,048 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #16,759 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,300 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,224 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,218 | 5.0 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,592 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,180 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,308 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,788 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,099 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,309 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,196 | 33.1 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,898 | 39.5 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,738 | 44.2 |
| 1989 | 99 | #1,472 | 53.7 |
| 1988 | 150 | #1,059 | 84.2 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,540 | 10.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalessa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalessa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jalessa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalessa, and how old are they?
An estimated 670 Americans named Jalessa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 33 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 496 people named Jalessa (492 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 673 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,644 babies since 1880, Jalessa is the fifth most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 65 babies recorded by SSA was a Jalessa (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 Jalessa
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 Jalessa and names like it
- Compare Jalessa and JalisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJalessa peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalessa since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jalessa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jalessa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.