Girls' name · since 1994
Jelitza
91 babies named Jelitza in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 91
- total births
- 1994–2013
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 65%
- born in that decade
Jelitza sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 91 recorded since 1994.
Jelitza has 91 recorded births among girls since 1994, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1994 to 2013.
- 91 total births
- 1994–2013 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 65% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jelitza's 91 recorded births place it above 61% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jelitza's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Jelitza splits its recorded history at 2003: 55% of all births land in the more recent half, 45% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1994 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2001 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Jelitza popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1994–2013
- Peak year (2001)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Jelitza by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Jelitza's strongest decade.
59 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.
Jelitza births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 18
1990s
18 births
- 2000s
2000s
59 births
- 2010s 14
2010s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 59 births (65% of all-time use).
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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, 1994–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jelitza: Baby Name Since 1994 - 91 Births, Peak 2001." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jelitza. 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 Jelitza 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.