Julyssa
Feminine · “of the Julian family”
Two of the twelve months are named after two men from the same family, and between them they broke the calendar. July was Quintilis, the fifth month, and August was Sextilis, the sixth. Renaming them left September, October, November and December meaning seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth in positions nine to twelve.
How old is the name Julyssa?
Julyssa first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Julyssa alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 900 people named Julyssa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Julyssa most popular?
Julyssa peaked in 2006, reaching #2850 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 9,082 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Iulius to Julyssa
The story of Julyssa
The Julii were an old patrician family with a spectacular origin story: they claimed descent from Iulus, the son of Aeneas, who was the son of Venus — so the family had a goddess in the tree, which was politically useful and repeated at every opportunity. Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in 46 BC and the senate renamed his birth month after him; his heir got the next one. The months below them kept their numerical names and have been two out of position ever since, which is why an October that is the tenth month is called the eighth. Julia went into every European language and Julyssa is one of the American blends built on it.
Meaningscholars disagree
of the Julian family
Julia is the feminine of the Roman clan name Julius, whose own origin is disputed — the family claimed descent from Iulus, son of Aeneas, which is a claim rather than an etymology. The -yssa ending is a modern American addition, borrowed from Alyssa and Melissa, and carries no meaning.
How the name formed
- Iulius
- Julia
- Julyssa
Related forms: Julissa · Giulia
Pronouncing Julyssa
joo-LISS-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. The y says a short i, which is what an English y does between consonants. In Spanish-speaking families the j is a throat sound, hoo-LEE-sah.
Nicknames for Julyssa
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
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 200661 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2850reached in 2006
- Change vs 2022
- −12.5%7 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.
Julyssa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Julissa in Spanish — spelling variant
- Giulia in Italian — related form
Julyssas among us
people named Julyssa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Julyssa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Julyssa
- #11932
- Julyssa on the 2025 chart
- #749
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Julyssa went to 7 girls in 2025, but Julissa is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 212, which makes it the 749th most-given girls’ name of the year — 11,183 places above the chart.
- Julissa205
- Julyssa7
About 1 girl in 7,581 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Julyssa 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 Janalyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Julyssa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janalyn climbed just as high around 1949, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janalyn's path sketches the road Julyssa is walking now.
Julyssa 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
Julyssa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Julyssa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The front half is one of the oldest and best-documented names in Europe.
- Three short forms, two of which are full names in their own right.
- Three open syllables with a regular stress that people read correctly.
- Julissa is the commoner spelling and this one will be corrected toward it.
- The j is said two ways depending on the reader's first language.
- The ending has no meaning; only the front half does.
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Frequently asked
- How many Julyssas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Julyssa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Julyssa?
- Julyssa is one of 2 recorded spellings. Julissa is the more common one — 205 births in 2025 against 7 for Julyssa.
- How popular is the name Julyssa in 2025?
- Julyssa ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Julyssa?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Julyssa — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Julyssa with classmates?
- Julyssa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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