Jalessa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jalessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 685 babies named Jalessa between 1987 and 2016, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jalessa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 150 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jalessa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 317 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jalessa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 44 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Jalessa in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jalessa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 685 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.