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Gizelle

#4,389 in 2025Girls' name

Pledge, through Giselle

Gizelle has been given to 3,131 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #4,389 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 206 recorded.

Babies named Gizelle, 2025

1 in 104,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gizelle: meaning, origin, and history

Pledge, through Giselle

French

What Gizelle means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Gizelle is used in English. Its origins include French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giselle.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Gizelle is pronounced /ʒɪˈzɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,131 girls were recorded with the name Gizelle between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 206 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,136 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,863 in 2020 to #4,389 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,222 in 2015 to #4,389 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 Gizelle?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,389
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gizelle 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gizelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gizelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gizelle was born before 2008 — so the typical Gizelle is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,131
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (1,278).

Is Gizelle 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
−611
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,526
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,167
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.5%
Peak was 2005 (206)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,136
2005

Spellings of Gizelle

Gizelle is not the most common spelling — Giselle is, with 54.6% against Gizelle's 3.4%.

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 Gizelle is used

Across 2016–2025, Gizelle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 23,702 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

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.

Gizelle around the world

Where Gizelle 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
    2009–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • France
    1902–1948
    #1,452
    in 1948
  • Canada
    2013–2013
    #2,840
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1977–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Gizelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,389
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,526
Best rank ever
#1,136
2005
Peak year
2005
206 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,131
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Gizelle

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

JazelleJonelleMabelleJiselleGizzelleLynelleRoselleMozelleKamilleNicolleJenelleChevelleAnnelleJizelleJeanelleArabelleTennilleMarielleAbrielleIzabelleShanelleLorelleHazelleMikelle

Names with a curve like Gizelle

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

JosselynLaniyaBrookelynnKirraKamyaAbygailAniahJamiyaKloeMakaylahZaniyaRilee

Sibling names for Gizelle

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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