Gizelle
Gizelle was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,389 among girls’ names; 3,131 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,080 Americans named Gizelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gizelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gizelle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gizelle is “a female given name from French, variant of Giselle.”
/ʒɪˈzɛl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gizelle?
#4,389 among girls’ names, 2025
Gizelle fell from #2,222 in 2015 to #4,389 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.6 to 19.9 per million.
206 babies in 2005, the peak
Gizelle peaked in 2005, when 206 girls were given it, #1,136 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,389 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,778 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,309 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,238 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,861 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,863 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,571 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,621 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,344 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,935 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,222 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,843 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,979 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,703 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,579 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,506 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 181 | #1,332 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 195 | #1,277 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 171 | #1,397 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 147 | #1,499 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 206 | #1,136 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,702 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,285 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,792 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,361 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,261 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,754 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,770 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,471 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,857 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,056 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,554 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,709 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,186 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,246 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,125 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,129 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,002 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,568 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,598 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,175 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,967 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,957 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,982 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,367 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,549 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,147 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,270 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,628 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,201 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,572 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,821 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,892 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,401 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,039 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,451 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,870 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,089 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,083 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,570 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,904 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,336 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,405 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,406 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gizelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gizelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gizelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gizelle, and how old are they?
3,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,131 Americans ever recorded as Gizelle. The median Gizelle alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,567 people named Gizelle (2,559 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,833 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 92 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 95 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 211 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 875 |
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 Gizelle born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,482 | 1.5× |
| California | 6 | #2,895 | 2.3× |
Where Gizelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gizelle is most over-represented in California: since 1954 it was given 2.3 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 Gizelle 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, Gizelle is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 32 babies (100%), 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 Gizelle
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 Gizelle and names like it
- Compare Gizelle and GizellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGizelle peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gizelle since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Gizelle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gizelle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.