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Grizel

Girls' name

Gray + battle, through Griselda

Grizel has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 13 recorded.

Babies named Grizel, 2005

1 in 769,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Grizel: meaning, origin, and history

Gray + battle, through Griselda

Germanic languages

What Grizel means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Grizel 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, 52 girls were recorded with the name Grizel between 1963 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1984; its best national rank was #5,020 in 1963.

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 Grizel?

Grizel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Grizel 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grizel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Grizels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Grizel was born before 1985 — so the typical Grizel is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
52
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1980s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Grizel 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (13)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,020
1963

Spellings of Grizel

Grizel is not the most common spelling — Ariel is, with 88.5% against Grizel's 0.06%.

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 Grizel is used

Across 1910–2025, Grizel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,376,598 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

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

Grizel 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
#5,020
1963
Peak year
1984
13 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Grizel

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

GrindlHeizelGriffynRayzelGrishmaGriselaReizelArizelAzazelLiezelGitzelJahzelJazzelAizelDenzelGrizeldaGrierGizzelGrindleGricelHazzelHaizelJitzelGrisell

Sibling names for Grizel

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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