Gissell
Gissell was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,374 among girls’ names; 1,392 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Gissell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 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 Gissell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gissell?
#10,374 among girls’ names, 2025
Gissell fell from #8,620 in 2015 to #10,374 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 5.6 per million.
103 babies in 2000, the peak
Gissell peaked in 2000, when 103 girls were given it, #1,708 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,374 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,038 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,200 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,257 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,688 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,726 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,897 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,204 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,372 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,620 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #9,167 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,458 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,325 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,466 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,429 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,528 | 25.0 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,782 | 34.4 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,547 | 38.0 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,898 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,640 | 34.6 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,160 | 45.2 |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,006 | 49.3 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,991 | 49.0 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,906 | 50.5 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,708 | 56.7 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,208 | 38.3 |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,408 | 32.8 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,525 | 29.3 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,357 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,369 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,095 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,557 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,985 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,627 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,019 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,262 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,808 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,100 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,946 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,328 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,529 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,944 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,725 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gissell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gissell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gissell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gissell, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,392 Americans ever recorded as Gissell. The median Gissell alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,293 people named Gissell (1,288 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,322 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 141 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 174 |
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 Gissell born?
The states with the most babies named Gissell are California, Texas and New York, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 388 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 201 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 48 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 23 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Gissell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gissell is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 2.0 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 Gissell 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, Gissell is the fourth most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 72 babies (13%), again the fourth 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 Gissell
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 Gissell and names like it
- Compare Gissell and GisselBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGissell peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gissell since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Gissell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gissell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.