Girls' name · since 1956
Gesele
Gesele has 6 recorded births since 1956 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1956 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #59,789 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 6
- born since 1956
- 1950s
- peak decade
Gesele sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 6 recorded since 1956.
Gesele has 6 recorded births among girls since 1956, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1956 to 1956.
- #59,789 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 6 born since 1956
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Gesele ranks #59,789 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 6 born since 1956, peaking in the 1950s.
- #59,789 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 6
- born since 1956
- 1950s
- peak decade
Gesele's 6 recorded births place it above 14.15% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Gesele popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1956–1956
- Peak year (1956)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 1 years of records
Gesele by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (6 births, 100% of the file).
1950s was Gesele's strongest decade.
6 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Gesele births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s
1950s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 6 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Gesele: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1956–1956 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Gesele draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.