Ghislaine

Girls' name

Feminine form of Ghislain

Ghislaine has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 1951. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Ghislaine, 2019

1 in 694,000

Ghislaine over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ghislaine: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Ghislain

French and Germanic languages

What Ghislaine means

Ghislaine is a feminine form of Ghislain.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ghislaine is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʒis.lɛn/ and /ɡi.lɛn/ for Ghislaine.

Origin, language, and formation

Ghislaine is used in English and French. Its origins include French and Germanic languages.

Ghislaine comes through French Ghislaine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ghislain.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ghislaine is pronounced /ɡɪˈleɪn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 190 girls were recorded with the name Ghislaine between 1951 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2012; its best national rank was #5,052 in 1951.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Ghislaine?

Ghislaine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only: 1 in 336,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ghislaine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ghislaine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ghislaines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ghislaine was born before 1990 — so the typical Ghislaine is around 35 today.

Median birth year: 1990; About 35 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 38.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 190; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Ghislaine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2012 (11)
Years since peak: 13; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,052; 1951

Where Ghislaine is used

Across 1910–2025, Ghislaine was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ghislaine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ghislaine around the world

Where Ghislaine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1998–2004
#3,725
in 2004
France
1900–2025
#6,653
in 2025
Canada
1995–1995
#2,576
in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ghislaine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,052; 1951
Peak year: 2012; 11 that year
First recorded: 1951
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 190
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ghislaine

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Ghislaine

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Sofie Aubri Kaelynn Kendyl Bayleigh Audriana Cambria Farah

For a brother

Konnor Landry Harper Jovanni Maxim Channing Madden Eliot

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