Jelisa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables.
Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Jelisa by the numbers
Its American peak was 145 babies in 1989, making it a 1980s name.
What we can tell you about Jelisa
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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