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Gizella

Girls' name

Form of Giselle

Gizella has been given to 569 babies in the U.S. since 1901. 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 1916, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Gizella, 2020

1 in 668,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gizella: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Giselle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gizella means

Gizella is a form of Giselle.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gizella is used in Hungarian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡi.zɛl.lɒ/ for Gizella.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gizella → 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.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Gizella is pronounced [ˈɡizɛlːɒ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 569 girls were recorded with the name Gizella between 1901 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,067 in 1914.

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 Gizella?

Gizella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gizella 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gizella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gizellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gizella was born before 1919 — so the typical Gizella is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
58
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1910s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (242).

Is Gizella 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 1916 (37)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,067
1914

Spellings of Gizella

Gizella is not the most common spelling — Giselle is, with 53.2% against Gizella's 0.60%.

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 Gizella is used

Across 1910–2025, Gizella was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 173,586 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 50,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 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. Gizella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gizella around the world

Where Gizella 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
    1960–1972
    #722
    in 1972

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

Gizella 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,067
1914
Peak year
1916
37 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
569
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gizella

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

CyrillaTehillaCirillaSavillaAnnellaMarellaArmellaAviellaMarillaDanellaGizelleAryellaLucillaJamillaYzabellaAstellaKarmellaSabellaOrnellaManuellaAuriellaArellaMikaellaGiabella

Sibling names for Gizella

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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