Gizella
Gizella was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 569 Americans have been recorded with it between 1901 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gizella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gizella mean?
Wiktionary, Hungarian section
Gizella is “a female given name”
[ˈɡizɛlːɒ]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hungarian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gizella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,936, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1916, the peak
Gizella peaked in 1916, when 37 girls were given it, #1,177 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,936 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,421 | 3.5 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,700 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,268 | 2.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,105 | 2.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,366 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,283 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,448 | 4.1 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,484 | 3.6 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,647 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 6 | #3,938 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,631 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,464 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,804 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,228 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,475 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,291 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,764 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,026 | 16.0 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,695 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,921 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,834 | 18.7 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,418 | 26.7 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,669 | 21.2 |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,394 | 26.8 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,193 | 34.2 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,177 | 35.4 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,269 | 31.5 |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,067 | 42.0 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,628 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,446 | 26.9 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,706 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,372 | 30.3 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,350 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,296 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,187 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,624 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,782 | 20.6 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,675 | 22.9 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,555 | 25.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gizella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gizella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gizella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gizella, and how old are they?
An estimated 60 Americans named Gizella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 362 people named Gizella (361 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 78 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 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.
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 Gizella born?
The states with the most babies named Gizella are Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 124 | not ranked | 4.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 87 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New Jersey | 19 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Gizella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gizella is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1910 it was given 4.7 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 Gizella 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 3,876 babies since 1880, Gizella is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 none of their 32 babies recorded by SSA was a Gizella (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gizella
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 Gizella and names like it
- Compare Gizella and GizelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGizella peaked in 1916.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gizella since 1910.
- Hungarian namesWiktionary’s origin for Gizella: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Gizella.
- Names starting with GMost given first.