Jisel
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jisel has been given to 367 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 1999, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Jisel, 2015
1 in 740,000
Jisel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jisel?
Jisel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jisel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jisel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jisels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jisel was born before 2003 — so the typical Jisel is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 57.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 367
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 57.2% of all recorded uses (210).
Is Jisel 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 1999 (28)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.7% average annual change
Spellings of Jisel
Jisel is not the most common spelling — Jill is, with 65.2% against Jisel's 0.12%.
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 Jisel is used
Across 1910–2025, Jisel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 328,996 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Jisel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jisel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jisel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jisel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.