Jalyssa
Feminine · “without madness”
Alyssum was a rabies cure. The Greek plant name is a-lyssa, without madness, because the herb was believed to treat the raging sickness that came from a dog bite, and the flower and the name Alyssa both descend from that piece of ancient medicine.
How old is the name Jalyssa?
Jalyssa first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Jalyssa alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,700 people named Jalyssa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jalyssa most popular?
Jalyssa peaked in 2007, reaching #1957 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 4,589 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jalyssa
Rabies was one of the terrors of the ancient world, and Greek had a word for the madness it produced, lyssa, personified as a goddess of frenzy in tragedy. A plant thought to counter it was named for what it lacked: alysson, the without-madness herb. The genus Alyssum still carries the name, and the flower is a garden staple that nobody associates with dogs. Alyssa became an extremely popular American girls' name in the 1980s and 1990s, and the prefix system then did its work, producing Jalyssa, Kalyssa and Dalyssa. Jalyssa's best year in United States records is 2007. The chain from a rabies remedy to a modern coinage is unbroken and completely invisible.
Meaningscholars disagree
without madness, from a plant name
Greek alysson, the plant, is generally analyzed as a-, without, plus lyssa, rage or madness, specifically the frenzy of rabies. The plant was used against bites. Alyssa as a name may descend from that or may be a variant of Alicia, from Germanic adal, noble. The Ja- prefix here is a free American element and carries no meaning.
Pronouncing Jalyssa
juh-LISS-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Jalissa and Jalyssa are identical aloud; the y is doing purely visual work.
Nicknames for Jalyssa
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
- 1987
- Most girls named
- 2007105 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1957reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- +112.5%17 in 2025, from 8
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.
Jalyssa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jalissa in English — spelling variant
- Alyssa in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Jalyssas among us
people named Jalyssa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Jalyssa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jalyssa
- #6546
- Jalyssa on the 2025 chart
- #922
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jalyssa went to 17 girls in 2025, but Jalissa is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 38, which makes it the 922nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,624 places above the chart.
- Jalissa21
- Jalyssa17
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,545 for Jalyssa itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Irasema test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jalyssa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Irasema climbed just as high around 1957, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Irasema's path sketches the road Jalyssa is walking now.
Jalyssa 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
Jalyssa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jalyssa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Contains Alyssa, a complete and long-established name.
- Three open syllables and no clusters, so it is easy to say.
- Aly is a ready short form that needs no explaining.
- Jalissa and Jalyssa split the records between them.
- The short form Lyssa is a Greek word for rage.
- The prefix families are closely dated to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jalyssas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Jalyssa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jalyssa?
- Jalyssa is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jalissa is the more common one — 21 births in 2025 against 17 for Jalyssa.
- How popular is the name Jalyssa in 2025?
- Jalyssa ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jalyssa?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Jalyssa — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jalyssa with classmates?
- Jalyssa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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