Girls' name · since 1988
Jolisha
54 babies named Jolisha in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 54
- total births
- 1988–1995
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 67%
- born in that decade
Jolisha sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 54 recorded since 1988.
Jolisha has 54 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 1995.
- 54 total births
- 1988–1995 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 67% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jolisha's 54 recorded births place it above 53% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jolisha's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jolisha's SSA record in two at 1991 and the more recent half accounts for 48% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 52%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1992, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 1988 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jolisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–1995
- Peak year (1988)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Jolisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Jolisha's strongest decade.
36 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Jolisha births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
18 births
- 1990s
1990s
36 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 36 births (67% 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, 1988–1995 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jolisha: Baby Name Since 1988 - 54 Births, Peak 1988." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jolisha. 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 Jolisha 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.