Meaning not yet researched.
Griselda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #653 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #653 in 1981; #3,309 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Griselda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,309 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #653.
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Griselda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 girls in 2025. Peak: #653 in 1981 · most girls in one year: 307 (1993).
In 2025, 47 US girls were named Griselda, making it the 3,309th most common girls’ name of the year, up 293 places from #3,602 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 43 girls named Griselda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #653, reached in 1981. The most girls given the name in a single year was 307, in 1993. For comparison, it was #3,552 in 2015 and #2,821 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Griselda in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 5 babies. In all, 9,185 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,304 babies named Griselda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 450 US girls were named Griselda; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gricelda (1,577 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Grizelda and Griscelda are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Grissel.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Grizelda (187), Griscelda (5).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,309 | — | — |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,201 | — | — |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,556 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,050 | — | — |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,637 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,505 | — | — |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,552 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,192 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,371 | — | — |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 2009 | 96 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 2008 | 90 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 2003 | 162 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 2002 | 154 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 2001 | 125 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2000 | 154 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1999 | 181 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1998 | 172 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1997 | 180 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1996 | 188 | #999 | — | — |
| 1995 | 239 | #822 | — | — |
| 1994 | 236 | #845 | — | — |
| 1993 | 307 | #698 | — | — |
| 1992 | 239 | #836 | — | — |
| 1991 | 270 | #763 | 5 | #8,672 |
| 1990 | 287 | #729 | — | — |
| 1989 | 260 | #755 | 5 | #8,359 |
| 1988 | 203 | #869 | — | — |
| 1987 | 193 | #878 | 5 | #7,367 |
| 1986 | 217 | #780 | 5 | #7,113 |
| 1985 | 229 | #753 | 9 | #4,454 |
| 1984 | 232 | #714 | 9 | #4,335 |
| 1983 | 189 | #815 | 5 | #6,642 |
| 1982 | 187 | #837 | 8 | #4,755 |
| 1981 | 271 | #653 | — | — |
| 1980 | 250 | #690 | — | — |
| 1979 | 253 | #679 | — | — |
| 1978 | 206 | #750 | — | — |
| 1977 | 187 | #803 | — | — |
| 1976 | 194 | #747 | — | — |
| 1975 | 171 | #804 | 5 | #5,780 |
| 1974 | 167 | #808 | — | — |
| 1973 | 191 | #735 | 5 | #5,379 |
| 1972 | 134 | #920 | — | — |
| 1971 | 101 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1970 | 99 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1969 | 108 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1968 | 80 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1967 | 60 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,830 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,217 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,219 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,722 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,620 | — | — |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,562 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,481 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,675 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,010 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,509 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,696 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,625 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,064 | — | — |
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).