Gissel
Gissel was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,591 among girls’ names; 2,563 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,530 Americans named Gissel 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 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gissel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gissel?
#4,591 among girls’ names, 2025
Gissel fell from #3,938 in 2015 to #4,591 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 18.7 per million.
152 babies in 2004, the peak
Gissel peaked in 2004, when 152 girls were given it, #1,373 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,591 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,037 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,444 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,395 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,460 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,537 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,984 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,800 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,731 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,117 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,938 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,384 | 26.3 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,418 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,913 | 33.5 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,226 | 48.3 |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,034 | 55.1 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,840 | 63.1 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,624 | 74.0 |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,626 | 71.3 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,789 | 61.0 |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,590 | 69.3 |
| 2004 | 152 | #1,373 | 82.8 |
| 2003 | 145 | #1,382 | 79.4 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,310 | 82.9 |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,315 | 81.1 |
| 2000 | 140 | #1,345 | 77.1 |
| 1999 | 143 | #1,286 | 80.6 |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,598 | 57.7 |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,947 | 42.5 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,092 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,439 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,633 | 26.3 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,236 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,414 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,354 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,018 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,116 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,310 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,246 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,536 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,641 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,453 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,897 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,528 | 4.1 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,724 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,169 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,130 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gissel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gissel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gissel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gissel, and how old are they?
2,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,563 Americans ever recorded as Gissel. The median Gissel alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,330 people named Gissel (2,324 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,431 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 261 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 346 |
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 Gissel born?
The states with the most babies named Gissel are California, Texas and New York, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 757 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 431 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 126 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 98 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 95 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 61 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Gissel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gissel is most over-represented in California: since 1977 it was given 2.2 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 Gissel 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, Gissel is the most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 72 babies (42%), 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 Gissel
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 Gissel and names like it
- Compare Gissel and GiselBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGissel peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gissel since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Gissel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gissel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.