Jalisa
Feminine
Jalisa is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 6,194 girls against 6 boys since 1880.
Jalisa is a prefix and a name, made the way a great many American names of the nineteen-eighties were made: the Ja- that was opening names everywhere, set in front of Lisa, which had been one of the most-given names in the country for a decade. Its second half is old and traveled; its first is not.
How old is the name Jalisa?
Jalisa first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Jalisa alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 6,100 people named Jalisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jalisa most popular?
Jalisa peaked in 1989, reaching #418 nationally. Today it ranks #4878, 4,460 places below that high. See the whole 1989 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jalisa
Prefix naming works on affection: it takes a name a family already loves and makes it theirs. Lisa was everywhere in the nineteen-seventies, which is exactly why it became a second half in the eighties, in Jalisa, Talisa and Nalisa. The result keeps the sound that made the original popular and removes the crowding. Names made this way are dated with unusual precision, and that is not a criticism of them; it simply means they carry a decade the way an older name carries a country.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The compound has no inherited meaning. Its second half does: Lisa is a short form of Elisabeth, from Hebrew Elisheva, my God is an oath. The Ja- opening is a prefix syllable with no sense of its own, so nothing carries down from the Hebrew to the whole.
Pronouncing Jalisa
juh-LEE-suh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Some families say jah-LISS-uh with a short middle vowel, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Jalisa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1980
- Most girls named
- 1989592 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #418reached in 1989
- Change vs 2024
- −3.6%27 in 2025, from 28
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jalisa in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania.
Jalisas among us
people named Jalisa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 59,528 born in 2025 was named Jalisa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shonda test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jalisa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shonda climbed just as high around 1973, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shonda's path sketches the road Jalisa is walking now.
Jalisa sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jalisa is headed
Jalisa should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jalisa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jalisa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lisa works as a short form and is a complete name with a long history.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English, so nobody stumbles.
- The rhythm is soft and even, which sits well against short surnames.
- Jalisa, Jalissa and Jelisa are all in use and near-identical in speech.
- It is firmly of the nineteen-eighties, which places its owner in time.
- Only half of it has a documented history, which is worth telling a curious child plainly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jalisas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,100 people named Jalisa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jalisa in 2025?
- Jalisa ranks #4878 among US girl names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jalisa?
- About 1 in every 59,528 US girls born in 2025 was named Jalisa — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jalisa with classmates?
- Jalisa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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