Jelissa is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Jelissa in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Jelissa in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Jelissa by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Jelissa ranks at #7,773. That means there are 7,772 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jelissa.
In fact, the name Jelissa hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Jelissa wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1988, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,895, 57 parents chose it in 1988 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Jelissa, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jelissa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Jelissa a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 7,858, for a total of 11 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Jelissa seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Jelissa in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 224 women and girls named Jelissa, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 224 women and girls named Jelissa live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Jelissa. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Jelissa lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Jelissa and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Jelissa relative to its female population is New York. And even there, only one in 84,633 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Jelissa.
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 seven letters, the name Jelissa has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Jelissa 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 Jelissa, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Sun
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jelissa
Jelissa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Jelissa sounds like this: