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Gisele

#3,081 in 2025Girls' name

Pledge, through Giselle

Gisele has been given to 5,391 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #3,081 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 234 recorded.

Babies named Gisele, 2025

1 in 62,600

Gisele over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gisele: meaning, origin, and history

Pledge, through Giselle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gisele means

Gisele belongs to the name family reached through Gisele → Giselle → Gisela → Giselle. Its meaning is “pledge”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gisele is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giselle and Gisela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Gisele is pronounced /ʒiˈze.li/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,391 girls were recorded with the name Gisele between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 234 in 2009; its best national rank was #702 in 1957.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,292 in 2020 to #3,081 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,577 in 2015 to #3,081 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gisele?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 30,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,081
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gisele 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 2025 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gisele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Giseles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gisele was born before 2005 — so the typical Gisele is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,245
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (1,364).

Is Gisele 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
−246
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−789
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,504
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.6%
Peak was 2009 (234)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#702
1957

Spellings of Gisele

Gisele is not the most common spelling — Giselle is, with 52.4% against Gisele's 5.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gisele is used

Across 2016–2025, Gisele was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 19,909 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2Florida1 in 16,667
  3. 3New York1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 20,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 33,333
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 33,333
  8. 8Colorado1 in 50,000

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.

Gisele around the world

Where Gisele 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
    2002–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2025
    #646
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #835
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1964–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gisele

People whose public names include Gisele, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gisele in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gisele. Linked forms have their own page here.

GiselaGisellaGiselle

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gisele by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,081
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 789
Best rank ever
#702
1957
Peak year
2009
234 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,391
Count in 2025
53

Names similar to Gisele

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

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Names with a curve like Gisele

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gisele, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Gisele

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

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