Gitel
Gitel was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,787 among girls’ names; 217 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gitel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gitel?
#13,787 among girls’ names, 2025
Gitel rose from #15,149 in 2015 to #13,787 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
11 babies in 1978, the peak
Gitel peaked in 1978, when 11 girls were given it, #5,682 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,787 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,086 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,551 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,398 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,784 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,725 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,149 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,304 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,278 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,511 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #13,975 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,003 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,587 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,135 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,010 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,623 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,670 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,743 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,944 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,288 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,306 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,023 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,017 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,715 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,809 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,921 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,329 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,332 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,682 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,095 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,784 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,418 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,570 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gitel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gitel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gitel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gitel, and how old are they?
An estimated 212 Americans named Gitel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 12 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 245 people named Gitel (243 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 196 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above 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.
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 Gitel born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 113 | not ranked | 7.8× |
Where Gitel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gitel is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 7.8 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 Gitel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Gitel?
Gitel is a less common spelling of Gittel: SSA has recorded 217 Gitel and 1,479 Gittel since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,696 babies since 1880, Gitel is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 51 babies (12%), again the second 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 Gitel
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 Gitel and names like it
- Compare Gitel and GittelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sGitel peaked in 1978.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gitel since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Gitel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gitel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.