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Gisselle

#1,812 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Giselle

Gisselle has been given to 10,551 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #1,812 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 810 recorded.

Babies named Gisselle, 2025

1 in 29,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gisselle: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Giselle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gisselle means

Gisselle is a variant of Giselle.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gisselle → Giselle → Giselle. The family’s meaning is “pledge”, recorded in French with the source elements gisil.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giselle.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,551 girls were recorded with the name Gisselle between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 810 in 2000; its best national rank was #367 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,349 in 2020 to #1,812 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,299 in 2015 to #1,812 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 Gisselle?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,900
111 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,812
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,703 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gisselle 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,703 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gisselle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gisselles were born

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

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,551
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (5,451).

Is Gisselle 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
−197
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−463
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−513
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.7%
Peak was 2000 (810)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#367
2000

Spellings of Gisselle

Gisselle is not the most common spelling — Giselle is, with 61.6% against Gisselle's 13.0%.

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 Gisselle is used

Across 2016–2025, Gisselle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 8,049 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

222 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,545
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 6,250
  4. 4Nevada1 in 10,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 11,111
  6. 6Georgia1 in 12,500
  7. 7New York1 in 12,500
  8. 8Florida1 in 16,667

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.

Gisselle around the world

Where Gisselle 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.

  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #1,996
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1977–1977
    #637
    in 1977

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gisselle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,812
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 463
Best rank ever
#367
2000
Peak year
2000
810 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,551
Count in 2025
111

Names similar to Gisselle

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

GiselleAnabelleRichelleMaybelleDanyelleNichelleMarcelleChanelleShanelleIzabelleAbrielleMarielleGiseleChevelleJenelleGiselaRachelleChantelleNicolleKamilleGisellaMozelleAubrielleRochelle

Names with a curve like Gisselle

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

LeslyTamiaHailieNyaHaileeMaceyAbigayleCalistaKaileeAbbigailShayleeAnnika

Sibling names for Gisselle

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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