Girls' name · since 1988
Jelisha
74 babies named Jelisha in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 74
- total births
- 1988–2001
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 62%
- born in that decade
74 girls have been named Jelisha since 1988, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Jelisha has 74 recorded births among girls since 1988, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1988 to 2001.
- 74 total births
- 1988–2001 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 62% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jelisha's 74 recorded births place it above 58% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jelisha's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Jelisha splits its recorded history at 1992: 41% of all births land in the more recent half, 59% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1994 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1990 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Jelisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–2001
- Peak year (1990)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Jelisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Jelisha's strongest decade.
46 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 62% of all-time use.
Jelisha births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
23 births
- 1990s
1990s
46 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 46 births (62% of all-time use).
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- Jelisha's decade-level peak was the 1990s (46 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1988–2001 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jelisha: Baby Name Since 1988 - 74 Births, Peak 1990." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jelisha. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jelisha draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.