Jalissa
Jalissa was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,800 among girls’ names; 3,526 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,480 Americans named Jalissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalissa?
#5,800 among girls’ names, 2025
Jalissa fell from #2,571 in 2015 to #5,800 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.2 to 13.1 per million.
172 babies in 1988, the peak
Jalissa peaked in 1988, when 172 girls were given it, #970 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,800 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,421 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,919 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,516 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,836 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,201 | 30.3 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,194 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,702 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,849 | 34.2 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,842 | 33.9 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,571 | 39.2 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,792 | 34.7 |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,073 | 53.0 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,270 | 47.1 |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,093 | 52.3 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,852 | 61.9 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,699 | 71.3 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,691 | 69.8 |
| 2007 | 164 | #1,440 | 85.3 |
| 2006 | 170 | #1,361 | 89.4 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,709 | 62.8 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,826 | 56.6 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,930 | 51.4 |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,809 | 55.1 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,015 | 46.7 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,244 | 38.5 |
| 1999 | 71 | #2,139 | 40.0 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,223 | 36.2 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,672 | 54.0 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,898 | 43.4 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,655 | 50.6 |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,441 | 61.6 |
| 1993 | 123 | #1,344 | 68.0 |
| 1992 | 139 | #1,247 | 75.4 |
| 1991 | 164 | #1,095 | 87.5 |
| 1990 | 156 | #1,118 | 82.2 |
| 1989 | 153 | #1,091 | 83.0 |
| 1988 | 172 | #970 | 96.6 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,902 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,605 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,308 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jalissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalissa, and how old are they?
3,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,526 Americans ever recorded as Jalissa. The median Jalissa alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,618 people named Jalissa (2,616 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,302 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 1,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 630 |
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 Jalissa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,291 | 1.4× |
Where Jalissa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jalissa is most over-represented in New York: since 1985 it was given 1.5 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 Jalissa 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, Jalissa is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 65 babies (32%), again the second 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 Jalissa
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 Jalissa and names like it
- Compare Jalissa and JalisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJalissa peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jalissa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalissa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.