In 2025, 205 US girls were named Julissa, making it the 1,136th most common girls’ name of the year, down 99 places from #1,037 in 2024. That is 38 fewer than the 243 girls named Julissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #219, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,530, in 2006. For comparison, it was #549 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Julissa in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 25,899 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 10,528 babies named Julissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,427 US girls were named Julissa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 503. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,840 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Julissa ranked highest in California in 2025, at #501 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Julisa (4,404 babies since 1880) and Julyssa (952 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jolisa, Juliza and Jolissa are summarised on this page.