How rare is the name Jalisa?

4,862 people in the United States have the first name Jalisa, about 1 in 62,121. It ranks #4,001 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JALISA

#4,001

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,862
About
1 in 62,121
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,862 people named Jalisa, 73.9% reported their origin as Black, 10.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.1% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jalisa peaked in 1989, when 598 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19802025
Peak year
1989
Births that year
598
In 2025*
27 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,200 babies have been given the name since 1980. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jalisa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,282. The largest share of babies named Jalisa, 63.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1980s#1,9431,226
1990s#1,2823,124
2000s#3,1491,088
2010s#5,094578
2020s#7,793184
Generation X 1965–800.1%
Millennials 1981–9663.1%
Generation Z 1997–1228.7%
2013 and later8.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jalisa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jalisa has been most common in Mississippi (3.3×), Georgia (3.1×), and Louisiana (2.4×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.46×).

4,633 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Jalisa

#3,997 Mirella · 4,864#4,000 Faisal · 4,863#4,002 Nathen · 4,861#4,003 Manish · 4,856

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jalisa, most common first.

#6,189 Jalissa · 2,618#19,527 Jalesa · 540#21,875 Jalisha · 460#28,553 Jalysa · 314#31,336 Jalise · 274#46,361 Jalisia · 144#48,685 Jaliza · 130#52,133 Jaleisa · 109

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