Jalisa
Jalisa was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,923 among girls’ names; 6,200 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,080 Americans named Jalisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 24 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jalisa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jalisa is “a female given name.”
ja- (possibly from Jane) + -lisa (possibly form Lisa; diminutive of Elizabeth), styled similar to names like Alyssa or Melissa; predominantly an African American name in the United States during the latter half of the 20th century.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jalisa?
#4,923 among girls’ names, 2025
Jalisa fell from #2,979 in 2015 to #4,923 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 16.8 per million.
598 babies in 1989, the peak
Jalisa peaked in 1989, when 598 babies were given it (592 girls, #419 among girls’ names). The 27 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,923 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,814 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,503 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,714 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,358 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,862 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,959 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,813 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,573 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,673 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,979 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,824 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,543 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,172 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,132 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,321 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,984 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,064 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,075 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 114 | #1,807 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,822 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,840 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,974 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,697 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 126 | #1,490 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 136 | #1,370 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 111 | #1,531 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 154 | #1,201 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 167 | #1,124 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 208 | #934 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 235 | #833 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 262 | #776 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 350 | #641 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 497 | #494 | 0.27 |
| 1991 | 588 | #432 | 0.31 |
| 1990 | 552 | #447 | 0.29 |
| 1989 | 592 | #419 | 0.32 |
| 1988 | 520 | #437 | 0.29 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,665 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,763 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,566 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,011 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,528 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalisa has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jalisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalisa, and how old are they?
6,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,200 Americans ever recorded as Jalisa. The median Jalisa alive today is 33 years old; half are between 24 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 4,862 people named Jalisa (4,852 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,939 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 500 |
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 Jalisa born?
The states with the most babies named Jalisa are Georgia, New York and Texas, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 407 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| New York | 385 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 383 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 340 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 329 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 289 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 253 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 233 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 204 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Alabama | 200 | not ranked | 2.0× |
Where Jalisa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jalisa is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1980 it was given 3.1 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 Jalisa 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 16,718 babies since 1880, Jalisa is the most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 65 babies (42%), again the most given.
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 Jalisa
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 Jalisa and names like it
- Compare Jalisa and JalissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJalisa peaked in 1989.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Jalisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jalisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.