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Griselda

#3,308 in 2025Girls' name

Gray + battle

Griselda has been given to 9,185 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #3,308 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 307 recorded.

Babies named Griselda, 2025

1 in 70,500

Griselda over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Griselda: meaning, origin, and history

Gray + battle

Germanic languages

What Griselda means

Griselda means “gray + battle”, associated with grīs and hild.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Old English elements *grīs (“gray”) + hild (“battle”), meaning “gray battle-maid”.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Griselda (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Griselda is used in English, Albanian and Spanish. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Griselda is pronounced /ɡɾiˈselda/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,124 girls were recorded with the name Griselda between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 307 in 1993; its best national rank was #653 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,419 in 2020 to #3,308 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,552 in 2015 to #3,308 in 2025.

In the United States, 61 boys were recorded with the name Griselda between 1973 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1984; its best national rank was #4,332 in 1984.

How common is Griselda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,308
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Griselda 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 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Griselda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Griseldas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Griselda was born before 1988 — so the typical Griselda is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,973
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1990s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (2,299).

Is Griselda 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
+294
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+111
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+244
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.3%
Peak was 1993 (307)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#653
1981

Spellings of Griselda

Griselda is the most-used spelling, taking 37.6% of the 24,271 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Griselda is used

Across 1910–2025, Griselda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 12,176 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

024 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,167
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 9,091
  4. 4Illinois1 in 14,286
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Nevada1 in 50,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Griselda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Griselda around the world

Where Griselda 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
    2003–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2001
    #5,140
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Griselda

People whose public names include Griselda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Griselda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Griselda. Linked forms have their own page here.

GrizeldaGryzeldaGriseldis

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Griselda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,308
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 111
Best rank ever
#653
1981
Peak year
1993
307 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,124
Count in 2025
47

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,332
1984
Peak year
1984
9 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Griselda

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

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Names with a curve like Griselda

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

MariselaSalinaAlysiaStefaniKiaNikoleLissetteShantelAndriaDanyelleRachealChantelle

Sibling names for Griselda

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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