Jelisa

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293

Peak · girls
1989 · 145 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,098
since 1980

Jelisa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Jelisa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201990peak #1,137, 1989girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025
2024#15,2935
2023#10,3129
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2016#12,8767
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2013#16,5475
2012#10,42910
2011#11,1819
2010#13,4487
2009#9,97511
2008#12,5798
2007#10,12911
2006#7,48216
2005#10,12810
2004#7,39115
2003#7,20715
2002#7,04515
2001#7,31714
2000#6,20817
1999#5,21920
1998#5,79917
1997#4,66022
1996#4,45323
1995#2,88041
1994#2,98839
1993#1,83079
1992#1,507104
1991#1,352121
1990#1,229136
1989#1,137145
1988#1,147133
1987#4,66017
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1984#8,1537
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First appearance
1980

The first year at least five girls were named Jelisa! It came in at #10,392, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1980–1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Jelisa
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1980
  • Peaked 1989 at #1,137 (145 births)
  • Births halved by 1994, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,714
  • Highest: 1 in 12,714 girls born in 1989 were named Jelisa (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 324,038 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 54.8% of all girls named Jelisa (602) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s312#1,137 (1989)#6,028
1990s602#1,229 (1990)#3,192
2000s132#6,208 (2000)#8,546
2010s38#10,429 (2012)#12,896
2020s14#10,312 (2023)#12,803

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Jelisa in 1990

girls
#1,229
136 births · 1 in 13,960 girls

Top girls' names in 1990

  1. #1Jessica46,486
  2. #2Ashley45,561
  3. #3Brittany36,536
  4. #4Amanda34,413
  5. #5Samantha25,868
  6. #6Sarah25,824
  7. #7Stephanie24,864
  8. #8Jennifer22,236
  9. #9Elizabeth20,750
  10. #10Lauren20,506
  11. #1,229Jelisa136
More about 1990

girls

1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 13,960 of them was named Jelisa, which outranked 91.9% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jelisa
  1. #1,224Jacquelin137
  2. #1,224Spencer137
  3. #1,224Susannah137
  4. #1,229Jelisa136
  5. #1,229Delilah136
  6. #1,229Jeana136
  7. #1,232Brigette135
  8. #1,232Elana135
  9. #1,232Reanna135

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1989
Risers
  1. 5,592Alannah#6,531#939
  2. 1,178Symone#1,998#820
  3. 869Shelbi#1,750#881
  4. 831Latifah#1,532#701
  5. 828Skyler#1,564#736
Fallers
  1. 2,554Elizabet#524#3,078
  2. 1,572Katherin#717#2,289
  3. 652Stephani#390#1,042
  4. 504Ashanti#893#1,397
  5. 416Audrianna#759#1,175

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1990