Giselle
Giselle was given to 803 girls in 2025, #382 among girls’ names; 50,230 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 49,500 Americans named Giselle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Giselle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Giselle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Giselle is “a female given name from French.”
Borrowed from French Giselle.
/ʒɪˈzɛl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Giselle?
#382 among girls’ names, 2025
Giselle fell from #221 in 2015 to #382 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.83 to 0.50 per 1,000.
2,596 babies in 2007, the peak
Giselle peaked in 2007, when 2,596 girls were given it, #134 among girls’ names. The 803 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 803 | #382 | 0.50 |
| 2024 | 872 | #358 | 0.54 |
| 2023 | 889 | #347 | 0.55 |
| 2022 | 907 | #350 | 0.55 |
| 2021 | 847 | #362 | 0.52 |
| 2020 | 937 | #332 | 0.58 |
| 2019 | 976 | #329 | 0.58 |
| 2018 | 1,106 | #301 | 0.65 |
| 2017 | 1,176 | #273 | 0.68 |
| 2016 | 1,463 | #220 | 0.83 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,489 | #221 | 0.83 |
| 2014 | 1,577 | #215 | 0.88 |
| 2013 | 1,563 | #207 | 0.89 |
| 2012 | 1,709 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 2,038 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 2010 | 2,090 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 2009 | 2,402 | #134 | 1.3 |
| 2008 | 2,489 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 2007 | 2,596 | #134 | 1.4 |
| 2006 | 2,090 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 2005 | 2,059 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 2004 | 1,884 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 1,772 | #180 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 1,478 | #217 | 0.82 |
| 2001 | 1,462 | #218 | 0.81 |
| 2000 | 1,486 | #212 | 0.82 |
| 1999 | 1,434 | #221 | 0.81 |
| 1998 | 1,255 | #242 | 0.71 |
| 1997 | 937 | #313 | 0.54 |
| 1996 | 365 | #623 | 0.21 |
| 1995 | 386 | #590 | 0.22 |
| 1994 | 362 | #613 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 582 | #432 | 0.32 |
| 1992 | 240 | #831 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 214 | #906 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 299 | #703 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 233 | #813 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 206 | #864 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 263 | #697 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 214 | #786 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 231 | #749 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 195 | #811 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 197 | #795 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 143 | #1,026 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 129 | #1,082 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 113 | #1,184 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 111 | #1,188 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 95 | #1,283 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 91 | #1,288 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,525 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 98 | #1,179 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,289 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,406 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 74 | #1,356 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 72 | #1,450 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,410 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 74 | #1,320 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 75 | #1,273 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 87 | #1,134 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 63 | #1,391 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 83 | #1,180 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 56 | #1,522 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 76 | #1,268 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 64 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,443 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 69 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 64 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 90 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,294 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 92 | #1,069 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 81 | #1,107 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,763 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,524 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Giselle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Giselle has been given almost only to girls: 44 boys in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Giselle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Giselle, and how old are they?
49,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 50,230 Americans ever recorded as Giselle. The median Giselle alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 40,347 people named Giselle (40,268 women and girls, 79 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 44,662 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 669 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 28,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,500 |
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 Giselle born?
The states with the most babies named Giselle are California, Texas and Florida, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 154 | #215 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 153 | #227 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 63 | #297 | 1.0× |
| New York | 53 | #320 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 31 | #266 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 28 | #409 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 27 | #390 | 1.3× |
| Arizona | 24 | #297 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 21 | #349 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 19 | #418 | 0.6× |
Where Giselle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Giselle is most over-represented in California: since 1949 it was given 2.4 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 Giselle 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 72,788 babies since 1880, Giselle is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 803 of their 1,024 babies (78%), again the 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 Giselle
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 Giselle and names like it
- Compare Giselle and GisselleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGiselle peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Giselle since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Giselle: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Giselle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Giselle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.