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Gissel

#4,591 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Gissel has been given to 2,563 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,591 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 152 recorded.

Babies named Gissel, 2025

1 in 111,000

Gissel over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gissel: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gissel means

Gissel is a given name.

The naming story behind Gissel

Wikidata records Gissel as a given name. The entity identifier is Q111072688, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,563 girls were recorded with the name Gissel between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 152 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,286 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,537 in 2020 to #4,591 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,938 in 2015 to #4,591 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.

How common is Gissel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 53,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,591
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gissel 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gissel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gissels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gissel was born before 2004 — so the typical Gissel is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
53.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,563
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 53.4% of all recorded uses (1,369).

Is Gissel 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
+2,446
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+946
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−653
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.7%
Peak was 2004 (152)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,286
1999

Spellings of Gissel

Gissel is not the most common spelling — Gisselle is, with 29.6% against Gissel's 7.2%.

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 Gissel is used

Across 1910–2025, Gissel was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 51,307 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Gissel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gissel around the world

Where Gissel 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.

  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gissel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,591
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 946
Best rank ever
#1,286
1999
Peak year
2004
152 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,563
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Gissel

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

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Names with a curve like Gissel

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

MadysenYazmineTyasiaNayelyAshlinAnaiMarkaylaSimranCamerynJaquelinAngelesShanya

Sibling names for Gissel

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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