Julissa
Julissa was given to 205 girls in 2025, #1,136 among girls’ names; 25,899 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,500 Americans named Julissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Julissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Julissa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Julissa is “a female given name from Spanish recently borrowed from Spanish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Julissa?
#1,136 among girls’ names, 2025
Julissa fell from #549 in 2015 to #1,136 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.32 to 0.13 per 1,000.
1,530 babies in 2006, the peak
Julissa peaked in 2006, when 1,530 girls were given it, #225 among girls’ names. The 205 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 205 | #1,136 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 243 | #1,037 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 285 | #932 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 280 | #960 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 292 | #916 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 347 | #784 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 416 | #696 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 412 | #707 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 444 | #663 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 503 | #598 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 565 | #549 | 0.32 |
| 2014 | 621 | #503 | 0.35 |
| 2013 | 694 | #441 | 0.40 |
| 2012 | 774 | #402 | 0.44 |
| 2011 | 792 | #399 | 0.45 |
| 2010 | 871 | #367 | 0.49 |
| 2009 | 936 | #350 | 0.51 |
| 2008 | 978 | #339 | 0.52 |
| 2007 | 1,502 | #235 | 0.78 |
| 2006 | 1,530 | #225 | 0.80 |
| 2005 | 1,191 | #279 | 0.64 |
| 2004 | 1,018 | #311 | 0.55 |
| 2003 | 867 | #356 | 0.47 |
| 2002 | 797 | #373 | 0.44 |
| 2001 | 906 | #340 | 0.50 |
| 2000 | 798 | #369 | 0.44 |
| 1999 | 757 | #379 | 0.43 |
| 1998 | 889 | #332 | 0.50 |
| 1997 | 1,355 | #219 | 0.78 |
| 1996 | 265 | #784 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 254 | #783 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 246 | #819 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 221 | #875 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 277 | #755 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 282 | #737 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 264 | #776 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 221 | #843 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 255 | #736 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 131 | #1,134 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,372 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 151 | #1,009 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 113 | #1,177 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 103 | #1,235 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 113 | #1,201 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 125 | #1,110 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 93 | #1,354 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 109 | #1,202 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 98 | #1,258 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 100 | #1,216 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 108 | #1,113 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 135 | #939 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 152 | #859 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 134 | #923 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 154 | #844 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 126 | #998 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 116 | #1,055 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 124 | #961 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,186 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,547 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,119 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,226 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Julissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Julissa has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Julissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Julissa, and how old are they?
25,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 25,899 Americans ever recorded as Julissa. The median Julissa alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 23,238 people named Julissa (23,200 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,045 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 15,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,270 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Julissa born?
The states with the most babies named Julissa are California, Texas and Florida, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 67 | #501 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 40 | #751 | 2.2× |
| Florida | 17 | #934 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 12 | #768 | 1.5× |
| New York | 8 | #1,587 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 7 | #860 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,562 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 5 | #905 | 0.4× |
Where Julissa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Julissa is most over-represented in Texas: since 1964 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Julissa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 31,507 babies since 1880, Julissa is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 205 of their 225 babies (91%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Julissa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Julissa and names like it
- Compare Julissa and JulisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJulissa peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Julissa since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Julissa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Julissa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Julissa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.