Yelissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Yelissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 25 babies named Yelissa between 1980 and 2006, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yelissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 5 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yelissa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 15 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Yelissa shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yelissa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yelissa 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 25 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.