Julissa

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.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Julissa, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Clarissa
• Larissa
• Marissa
• Melissa
• Nerissa
• Phyllis
• Lorena
• Janessa
• Jemma
• Lisa
• Alessandra
• Jessa

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Julissa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Swedish given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Peru, Iceland

  Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

  Also written Jûlîssâ

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Julissa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A female given name from Spanish recently borrowed from Spanish.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Julissa Villanuevab. 1972HNdoctor of forensic medicine from Honduras
• Julissa Gomezb. 1972USAmerican gymnast (1972–1991)
• Titi Plazab. 1974PEnot in their usual namePeruvian actress
• Julissa Reynosob. 1975USUnited States ambassador
• Julissab. 1976USPuerto Rican singer-songwriter (born 1976)
• Julissa Ferrerasb. 1976USAmerican politician
• Julissa Bermudezb. 1983USAmerican actress
• Julissa Diez Cansecob. 1989PEPeruvian taekwondo athlete
• Julissa Davilab. 1997MXMexican association football player
• Julissa Mantilla FalcónPERapporteur on the Rights of Older Persons for OAS

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Julissa mean, and where does it come from?

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What are other forms of the name Julissa?

In the etymology graph, Julie and Julia are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Julissa?

In Spanish /xulisa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Julissa a male or female name?

Julissa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Ecuador (INEC, 2024), Venezuela (asosab) and Spain (INE), among others.

In which country does Julissa have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Julissa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled julissa.

How common is the name Julissa?

In the United States, the national register counted 23,238 people named Julissa in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.

How common is Julissa compared with other names?

In Honduras, Julissa is the 82nd most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.