Meaning not yet researched.
Gissel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,288 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,288 in 1999; #4,592 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gissel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,592 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,288.
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Gissel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,288 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 152 (2004).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Gissel, making it the 4,592nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,449 places from #7,041 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 16 girls named Gissel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,288, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 152, in 2004. For comparison, it was #3,939 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gissel in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 2,563 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,369 babies named Gissel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 217 US girls were named Gissel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gisselle (10,551 babies since 1880), Gisele (5,391 babies since 1880), Gisel (2,283 babies since 1880) and Gisell (1,874 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gizzel and Gessel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gizzel (36), Gessel (23).
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 Gissel 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 | 30 | #4,592 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,041 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,448 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,400 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,465 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,541 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,989 | — | — |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,118 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 2004 | 152 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 2003 | 145 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 2000 | 140 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1999 | 143 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,420 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,360 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,024 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,122 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,315 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,251 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,539 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,644 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,457 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,899 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,530 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,727 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,171 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,132 | — | — |
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).