Jalissa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 59 babies a year in the US.
Jalissa by the numbers
Jalissa was given to 59 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 172 babies in 1988, making it a 1980s name.
What we can tell you about Jalissa
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.
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Names that are said the same way as Jalissa, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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