Meaning not yet researched.
Jalyssa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,961 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,961 in 2007; #6,655 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jalyssa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,655 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #1,961.
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Jalyssa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,961 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 105 (2007).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Jalyssa, making it the 6,655th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,886 places from #11,541 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 8 girls named Jalyssa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,961, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 105. For comparison, it was #3,878 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jalyssa in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 1,703 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 755 babies named Jalyssa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 212 US girls were named Jalyssa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jalisa (6,200 babies since 1880), Jalissa (3,526 babies since 1880), Jaleesa (3,267 babies since 1880) and Jalessa (685 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jalyssa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,655 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,541 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,675 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,858 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,209 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,382 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,538 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,275 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,618 | — | — |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,138 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,677 | — | — |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,359 | — | — |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,123 | — | — |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,741 | — | — |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,445 | — | — |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,324 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,182 | — | — |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,999 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).