Jalisa is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Jalisa is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Jalisa. In the SmartGenius ranking, Jalisa is #3,088 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jalisa.
Jalisa is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Jalisa - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 402 in 1989. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Jalisa really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jalisa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
28 babies were named Jalisa in 2022 - that's 1 in 5,293,996 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Jalisa ranked 4,219 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Jalisa, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 32 states are home to women and girls named Jalisa. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Jalisa living in one state or another. If your name is Jalisa and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Mississippi, which has the most people named Jalisa relative to the population, you still have to ask 9,872 women and girls their names before you hear Jalisa as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Jalisa is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jalisa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jalisa, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jalisa
Jalisa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
L
I
S
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
A
L
I
S
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jalisa sounds like this:
