Gisella
Gisella was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,985 among girls’ names; 1,533 Americans have been recorded with it since 1895 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Gisella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gisella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gisella mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Gisella is “a female given name; alternative spelling of Gisela”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gisella?
#5,985 among girls’ names, 2025
Gisella fell from #4,173 in 2015 to #5,985 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 12.4 per million.
67 babies in 2009, the peak
Gisella peaked in 2009, when 67 girls were given it, #2,712 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,985 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,597 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,308 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,237 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,760 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,589 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,855 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,184 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,168 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,375 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,173 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,738 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,596 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,333 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,101 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,053 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,712 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,393 | 25.9 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,348 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,864 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,019 | 28.7 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,086 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,196 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,101 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,970 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,217 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,120 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,207 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,976 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,224 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,006 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,314 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,279 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,184 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,102 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,478 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,279 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,592 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,698 | 7.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,230 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,511 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,068 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,477 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,972 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,351 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,760 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,799 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,217 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,674 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,481 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,303 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,955 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,382 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,994 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,908 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,858 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,736 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,619 | 5.3 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,266 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,106 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,916 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,489 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,587 | 2.5 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,542 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,994 | 4.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,389 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,616 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,423 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,748 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,097 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,892 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,873 | 6.5 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,390 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,472 | 12.5 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,490 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gisella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gisella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gisella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gisella, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,533 Americans ever recorded as Gisella. The median Gisella alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,014 people named Gisella (2,008 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,274 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 144 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 177 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 665 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 413 |
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 Gisella born?
The states with the most babies named Gisella are California, Texas and New York, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 247 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 113 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 70 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Gisella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gisella is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Gisella 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 72,456 babies since 1880, Gisella is the fifth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 1,024 babies (2.0%), again the fifth 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 Gisella
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 Gisella and names like it
- Compare Gisella and GiselleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGisella peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gisella since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Gisella: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Gisella.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gisella alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.