Jalyssa
Jalyssa was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,654 among girls’ names; 1,703 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,680 Americans named Jalyssa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalyssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalyssa?
#6,654 among girls’ names, 2025
Jalyssa fell from #3,877 in 2015 to #6,654 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 10.6 per million.
105 babies in 2007, the peak
Jalyssa peaked in 2007, when 105 girls were given it, #1,961 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,654 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,536 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,670 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,855 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,204 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,378 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,534 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,274 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,616 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,674 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,877 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,136 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,876 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,720 | 36.9 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,676 | 37.5 |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,500 | 41.6 |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,022 | 55.5 |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,065 | 52.4 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,961 | 54.6 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,650 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,095 | 48.2 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,350 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,375 | 38.3 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,831 | 29.5 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,668 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,354 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,120 | 23.7 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,898 | 25.5 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,476 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,379 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,736 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,474 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,449 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,440 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,318 | 17.6 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,177 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,943 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,889 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,994 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalyssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalyssa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jalyssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalyssa, and how old are they?
1,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,703 Americans ever recorded as Jalyssa. The median Jalyssa alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,272 people named Jalyssa (1,268 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,604 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 | 290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 324 |
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 Jalyssa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,292 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,292 | 1.0× |
Where Jalyssa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jalyssa is most over-represented in Texas: since 1987 it was given 1.3 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 Jalyssa 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 16,956 babies since 1880, Jalyssa is the fourth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 80 babies (21%), the third most given that year.
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 Jalyssa
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 Jalyssa and names like it
- Compare Jalyssa and JalisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJalyssa peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalyssa since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jalyssa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalyssa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.