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Gizela

Girls' name

English equivalent of Giselle

Gizela has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1995. 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 1995, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Gizela, 2007

1 in 800,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gizela: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Giselle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gizela means

Gizela is a English equivalent of Giselle.

Origin, language, and formation

Gizela is used in Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giselle.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Gizela is pronounced [ˈɡɪzɛla].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Gizela between 1995 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1995; its best national rank was #12,289 in 1995.

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 Gizela?

Gizela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gizela 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 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gizela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gizelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gizela was born before 2002 — so the typical Gizela is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
59.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
27
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 59.3% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Gizela 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (6)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,289
1995

Spellings of Gizela

Gizela is not the most common spelling — Isela is, with 19.6% against Gizela's 0.09%.

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.

Gizela around the world

Where Gizela 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.

  • France
    1972–1972
    #2,274
    in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gizela 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
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Best rank ever
#12,289
1995
Peak year
1995
6 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gizela

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

GizzelGizeleZarelaAmielaCanelaNayelaImelaGaelaAurielaGizemSaelaNikelaGizellIsmaelaSarelaBrielaAneelaBraelaAzrielaXaelaItzelaSkyelaWalelaAryela

Sibling names for Gizela

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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