Girls' name · since 1971
Jillisa
118 babies named Jillisa in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 118
- total births
- 1971–1997
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 53%
- born in that decade
Jillisa is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 118 have been recorded since 1971.
Jillisa has 118 recorded births among girls since 1971, 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 1971 to 1997.
- 118 total births
- 1971–1997 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 53% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jillisa's 118 recorded births place it above 65% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jillisa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jillisa's SSA record in two at 1990 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1981, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1989 peak of 21, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jillisa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1971–1997
- Peak year (1989)
- 21
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Jillisa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Jillisa's strongest decade.
62 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Jillisa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 13
1970s
13 births
- 1980s
1980s
43 births
- 1990s
1990s
62 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 62 births (53% of all-time use).
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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, 1971–1997 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jillisa: Baby Name Since 1971 - 118 Births, Peak 1989." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jillisa. 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 Jillisa 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.