Gisele
Gisele was given to 53 girls in 2025, #3,081 among girls’ names; 5,391 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,970 Americans named Gisele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gisele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gisele mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Gisele is “a female given name, variant of Gisela, equivalent to English Giselle”
/ʒiˈze.li/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gisele?
#3,081 among girls’ names, 2025
Gisele fell from #1,577 in 2015 to #3,081 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 77.9 to 33.0 per million.
234 babies in 2009, the peak
Gisele peaked in 2009, when 234 girls were given it, #1,088 among girls’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,081 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,835 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,831 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,708 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,394 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,292 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,119 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,092 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,856 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 154 | #1,490 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 139 | #1,577 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 162 | #1,411 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 128 | #1,662 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 127 | #1,676 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 162 | #1,411 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 177 | #1,330 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 234 | #1,088 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 223 | #1,153 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 209 | #1,203 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 179 | #1,310 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 142 | #1,482 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,837 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,069 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,474 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,288 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,714 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,263 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,438 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,424 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,855 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,727 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,733 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,278 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,109 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,245 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,419 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,923 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,059 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,722 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,597 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,923 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,555 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,536 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,315 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,201 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,044 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,195 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,032 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,022 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,722 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,421 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,753 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,939 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,610 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,824 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,223 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,265 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,911 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 58 | #1,453 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,352 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 101 | #1,075 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 82 | #1,221 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 64 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 96 | #1,098 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 120 | #962 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 170 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 201 | #702 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 179 | #722 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 141 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,449 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,893 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,089 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,516 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,933 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,500 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,814 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,926 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,606 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,573 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,871 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,469 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,006 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,138 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,051 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,349 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,932 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,133 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,178 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,168 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,615 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gisele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gisele has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gisele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gisele, and how old are they?
4,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 5,391 Americans ever recorded as Gisele. The median Gisele alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 6,538 people named Gisele (6,525 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,709 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 392 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 272 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,260 |
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 Gisele born?
The states with the most babies named Gisele are California, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,779 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,736 | 0.9× |
| New York | 6 | #1,904 | 1.1× |
Where Gisele is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gisele is most over-represented in California: since 1923 it was given 1.5 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 Gisele 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,939 babies since 1880, Gisele is the third most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 1,024 babies (5.2%), again the third 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 Gisele
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1920-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Manya | 1,024 |
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 Gisele and names like it
- Compare Gisele and GiselleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGisele peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gisele since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Gisele: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Gisele.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gisele alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.