Meaning not yet researched.
Gissell: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,712 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,712 in 2000; #10,378 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gissell in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,378 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,712.
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Gissell: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,712 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 103 (2000).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Gissell, making it the 10,378th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,336 places from #7,042 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 16 girls named Gissell in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,712, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #8,625 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gissell in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 1,392 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 763 babies named Gissell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 118 US girls were named Gissell; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 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 Gissel (2,563 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 Gissell 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 | 9 | #10,378 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,042 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,205 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,262 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,693 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,731 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,901 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,208 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,375 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,625 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,172 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,460 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,529 | — | — |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,362 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,374 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,101 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,563 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,992 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,634 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,025 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,268 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,814 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,105 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,951 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,330 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,531 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,947 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,728 | — | — |
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).