Grissel

Girls' name

Gray + battle, through Griselda

Grissel has been given to 237 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1984, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Grissel, 2024

1 in 557,000

Grissel over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Grissel: meaning, origin, and history

Gray + battle, through Griselda

Germanic languages

What Grissel means

Grissel belongs to the name family reached through Grissel → Griselda. Its meaning is “gray + battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Grissel is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Griselda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 237 girls were recorded with the name Grissel between 1970 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1984; its best national rank was #4,211 in 1984.

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 Grissel?

Grissel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 270,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Grissel 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grissel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Grissels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Grissel was born before 1991 — so the typical Grissel is around 34 today.

Median birth year: 1991; About 34 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 29.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 237; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Grissel 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1984 (18)
Years since peak: 41; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,211; 1984

Spellings of Grissel

Grissel is not the most common spelling — Kristel is, with 23.5% against Grissel's 1.9%.

Kristel23.5%2,992
Gissel20.1%2,563
Gisel17.9%2,283
Grisel13.1%1,671
Gissell10.9%1,392
Cristel8.1%1,037
Gissele4.4%566
Grissel1.9%237

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 Grissel is used

Across 1910–2025, Grissel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 731,261 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New 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. Grissel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Grissel 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: #4,211; 1984
Peak year: 1984; 18 that year
First recorded: 1970
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 237
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Grissel

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

Grisel Grizelda Griffin Grisell Grier Gricel Zissel Grisela Yissel Griselle Griffyn Heyssel Grishma Marisel Heysel Grizel Jessel Maysel Liesel Maisel Grindle Isel Grindl Leisel

Sibling names for Grissel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Venessa Linsey Candis Afton Tanesha Kristan Matthew Tera

For a brother

Marques Brenton Jerrod Whitney Shea Jamaal Darnell Derik

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