girls:
933 births since 1980
#4783 (16th percentile)
overall:
933 births since 1980
#6806 (12th percentile)
The name Jelissa is the #6,806 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 933 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 12.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,783 (16.3% percentile) for all time with 933 births since 1980.
Jelissa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (first recorded for girls in 1980). Birth data for Jelissa is available in 40 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Jelissa reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 6.9% percentile (ranked #768) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jelissa ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 17.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jelissa".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jelissa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.5% confident that Jelissa is pronounced as juh-LIH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jeh-LIH-suh, at 21.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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