Gisell
Gisell was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,936 among girls’ names; 1,874 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Gisell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gisell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gisell?
#6,936 among girls’ names, 2025
Gisell fell from #4,764 in 2015 to #6,936 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 10.0 per million.
102 babies in 2005, the peak
Gisell peaked in 2005, when 102 girls were given it, #1,895 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,936 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,036 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,615 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,707 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,761 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,121 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,478 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,295 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,905 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,858 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,764 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,037 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,335 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,160 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,740 | 36.4 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,462 | 42.8 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,292 | 46.3 |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,083 | 51.8 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,231 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,407 | 41.0 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,895 | 55.2 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,003 | 50.1 |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,005 | 49.3 |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,050 | 46.7 |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,833 | 53.3 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,791 | 53.4 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,695 | 54.7 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,833 | 47.5 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,075 | 39.1 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,780 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,513 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,281 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,328 | 30.4 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,692 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,864 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,921 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,554 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,921 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,964 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,944 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,703 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,556 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,527 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,604 | 3.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,330 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gisell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gisell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gisell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gisell, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,874 Americans ever recorded as Gisell. The median Gisell alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,748 people named Gisell (1,735 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,767 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 252 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 272 |
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 Gisell born?
The states with the most babies named Gisell are California, Texas and Arizona, with 83% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 545 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 248 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Arizona | 72 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 50 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Nevada | 6 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Gisell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gisell is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 2.1 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 Gisell 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, Gisell is the third most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 72 babies (22%), 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 Gisell
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 Gisell and names like it
- Compare Gisell and GisselBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGisell peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gisell since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Gisell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gisell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.