Meaning not yet researched.
Gisell: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,697 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,697 in 1999; #6,938 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gisell in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,938 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,697.
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Gisell: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,697 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 102 (2005).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Gisell, making it the 6,938th most common girls’ name of the year, up 102 places from #7,040 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 16 girls named Gisell in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,697, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 102, in 2005. For comparison, it was #4,765 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gisell in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 7 babies. In all, 1,874 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 910 babies named Gisell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 160 US girls were named Gisell; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Giselle (50,230 babies since 1880), Gisselle (10,551 babies since 1880), Gisele (5,391 babies since 1880) and Gizelle (3,131 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gisell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,938 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,040 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,620 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,712 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,766 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,126 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,482 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,299 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,909 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,860 | — | — |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,765 | — | — |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,039 | — | — |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,337 | — | — |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,162 | — | — |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,518 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,286 | — | — |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,699 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,870 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,926 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,560 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,926 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,969 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,949 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,557 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,529 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,607 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,332 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).