Julissa

Where Julissa comes from

The dictionaries list Julissa as a given name — a female given name from Spanish recently borrowed from Spanish — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #6,767 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Julissa Villanueva born
    doctor of forensic medicine from Honduras
  3. 1975
    Julissa Reynoso born
    United States ambassador
  4. 1997
    Peak, #219
    1,355 babies named Julissa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #503.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish recently borrowed from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Julissa Villanueva · doctor of forensic medicine from Honduras, born 1972
  • Julissa Reynoso · United States ambassador, born 1975
  • Julissa Bermudez · American actress, born 1983
  • Julissa Gomez · American gymnast, 1972–1991
  • Julissa Diez Canseco · Peruvian taekwondo athlete, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.