Jaleesa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 31 babies a year in the US.
Jaleesa by the numbers
Jaleesa was given to 31 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 718 babies in 1988, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Jaleesa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jaleesa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Jaleesa
Names that are said the same way as Jaleesa, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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