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Gisella

#5,985 in 2025Girls' name

Pledge, through Giselle

Gisella has been given to 1,533 babies in the U.S. since 1895. In 2025 it ranked #5,985 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Gisella, 2025

1 in 166,000

Gisella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gisella: meaning, origin, and history

Pledge, through Giselle

French and Italian

What Gisella means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Gisella is used in Indonesian and Portuguese. Its origins include French and Italian.

Gisella comes through French Giselle.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gisela and Giselle.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Gisella is pronounced /ɡiˈsela/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,533 girls were recorded with the name Gisella between 1895 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,490 in 1895.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,589 in 2020 to #5,985 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,173 in 2015 to #5,985 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 Gisella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,985
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gisella 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gisella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gisellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gisella was born before 2006 — so the typical Gisella is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,458
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (468).

Is Gisella 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
−1,388
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,396
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,812
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.9%
Peak was 2009 (67)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,490
1895

Spellings of Gisella

Gisella is not the most common spelling — Giselle is, with 39.8% against Gisella's 1.2%.

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 Gisella is used

Across 1910–2025, Gisella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 127,050 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Maryland1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 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. Gisella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gisella around the world

Where Gisella 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
    2016–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1925–1971
    #1,852
    in 1971
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1959–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Gisella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,985
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,396
Best rank ever
#1,490
1895
Peak year
2009
67 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,533
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Gisella

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

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Sibling names for Gisella

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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