Grissel
Grissel was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 237 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Grissel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Grissel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Grissel is “a female given name from the Germanic languages; a medieval variant of Griselda, rare today.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Grissel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,061, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1984, the peak
Grissel peaked in 1984, when 18 girls were given it, #4,211 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,061 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,981 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,624 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,711 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,944 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,093 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,219 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,791 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,477 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,675 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #13,752 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,810 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,127 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,275 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,310 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,687 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,285 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,663 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,482 | 5.8 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,467 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,957 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,151 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,211 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,904 | 5.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,948 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,641 | 4.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,790 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,555 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,274 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,589 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,204 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,373 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Grissel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Grissel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Grissel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Grissel, and how old are they?
An estimated 230 Americans named Grissel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 24 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 522 people named Grissel (520 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,090 babies since 1880, Grissel is the second most given (11% 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 Grissel
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 Grissel and names like it
- Compare Grissel and GriselBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sGrissel peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Grissel since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Grissel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Grissel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with GMost given first.