Grisel
Grisel was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,352 among girls’ names; 1,678 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Grisel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 28 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Grisel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Grisel?
#12,352 among girls’ names, 2025
Grisel fell from #12,232 in 2015 to #12,352 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 4.4 per million.
211 babies in 1984, the peak
Grisel peaked in 1984, when 211 babies were given it (204 girls, #785 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,352 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,628 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,206 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,469 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,947 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,407 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,521 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,014 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,151 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,232 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #9,754 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,739 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,946 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,553 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,035 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,440 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,061 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,428 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,209 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,253 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,053 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,692 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,230 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,063 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,700 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,915 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,367 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,784 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,133 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,118 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,139 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,416 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,243 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,093 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,940 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,733 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,896 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,995 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,953 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 204 | #785 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,865 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,019 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,051 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,371 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,963 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,520 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,577 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,476 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,782 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,648 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,699 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,502 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,322 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,368 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,788 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,875 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,313 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,424 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,339 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,098 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,415 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,376 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,814 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Grisel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Grisel has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 70 years of records.
Girls and boys named Grisel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Grisel, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,678 Americans ever recorded as Grisel. The median Grisel alive today is 41 years old; half are between 28 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 3,239 people named Grisel (3,220 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Grisel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 117 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 391 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 638 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 361 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 93 |
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 Grisel born?
The states with the most babies named Grisel are New York, California and Texas, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 329 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| California | 327 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 126 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 109 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 31 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Grisel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Grisel is most over-represented in New York: since 1954 it was given 2.7 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 Grisel 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,090 babies since 1880, Grisel is the most given (80% of them).
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 Grisel
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 Grisel and names like it
- Compare Grisel and GrisselBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sGrisel peaked in 1984.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Grisel since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Grisel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Grisel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with GMost given first.