Jélissa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jélissa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 782 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 65Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • GYGuyana1 in 107K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 279K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

782 people, 2020

Record sources
160 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jelissa in US United States, DO Dominican Republic, PH Philippines and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Jélissa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jélissa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7821 in 425K782Jelissa160
DO Dominican Republic—≈180 est.≈1 in 65K—Jelissa10
PH Philippines—≈140 est.≈1 in 815K—Jelissa13
CU Cuba—≈120 est.≈1 in 91K—Jelissa1
NL Netherlands—621 in 279K62Jelissa6
PR Puerto Rico#958≈16 est.≈1 in 204K—Jelissa8
GY Guyana—71 in 107K7Jelissa1

782 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jélissa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Jélissa a male or female name?
Jélissa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Jélissa?
In the United States, the national register counted about 782 people named Jélissa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jelissa. After it come Dominican Republic, Philippines, Cuba and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Jélissa?
In the United States, the national register counted 782 people named Jélissa in 2020, about 1 in 425 thousand residents.
How common is Jélissa compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Jélissa is the 958th most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jélissa” — ranked 14897th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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