Jalitza — girls' name
53 babies named Jalitza in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
58% of everyone ever named Jalitza was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Jalitza in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jalitza
The Social Security Administration has registered 53 babies named Jalitza between 1994 and 2019, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jalitza currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 11 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jalitza performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 31 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Jalitza shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jalitza 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 53 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.
Jalitza at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jalitza popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1994
- Peak year (1996)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
53 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 11 births in a single year.
Jalitza by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 31 births that decade — 58% of Jalitza's all-time total
Jalitza decade highlights
- Peak decade 31 births
- Runner-up 11 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Jalitza's strongest decade
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1994–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.