Jelissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jelissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 933 babies named Jelissa between 1980 and 2023, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jelissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 64 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jelissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 355 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jelissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 141 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jelissa in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jelissa 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 933 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.