girls:
3.5k births since 1985
#2934 (49th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1985
#4644 (40th percentile)
The name Jalissa is the #4,644 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,473 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 40.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,934 (48.7% percentile) for all time with 3,473 births since 1985.
Jalissa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 (first recorded for girls in 1985).
For girls, Jalissa reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 20.7% percentile (ranked #641) with 89 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 89 births per million (ranked 20.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jalissa ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 17.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jalissa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jalissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.9% confident that Jalissa is pronounced as juh-LIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-LEE-suh, at 21.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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