Gisel
Gisel was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,634 among girls’ names; 2,283 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,250 Americans named Gisel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gisel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gisel?
#6,634 among girls’ names, 2025
Gisel fell from #6,312 in 2015 to #6,634 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 10.6 per million.
114 babies in 1999, the peak
Gisel peaked in 1999, when 114 girls were given it, #1,503 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,634 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,349 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,291 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,813 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,389 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,120 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,820 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,383 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,229 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,857 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,312 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,153 | 29.1 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,334 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,943 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,774 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,368 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,211 | 48.4 |
| 2008 | 93 | #2,163 | 49.2 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,960 | 54.6 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,899 | 56.3 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,744 | 61.2 |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,750 | 59.9 |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,713 | 60.8 |
| 2002 | 105 | #1,734 | 58.4 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,905 | 50.5 |
| 2000 | 102 | #1,717 | 56.2 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,503 | 64.3 |
| 1998 | 104 | #1,579 | 58.9 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,933 | 43.1 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,972 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,494 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,850 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,604 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 26 | #3,998 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,353 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,548 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,704 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,910 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,697 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,414 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,804 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,800 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,566 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,314 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,671 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,062 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,723 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,962 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,490 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,823 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,215 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,026 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,716 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,750 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,418 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,858 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gisel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gisel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gisel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gisel, and how old are they?
2,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,283 Americans ever recorded as Gisel. The median Gisel alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,547 people named Gisel (2,520 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,151 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Gisel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 99 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 363 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 303 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gisel born?
The states with the most babies named Gisel are California, Texas and Illinois, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 631 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 336 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 90 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 87 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 75 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 45 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 28 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Gisel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gisel is most over-represented in California: since 1969 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gisel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,112 babies since 1880, Gisel is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 72 babies (24%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gisel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gisel and names like it
- Compare Gisel and GisselBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGisel peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gisel since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Gisel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gisel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.