Grizel
Grizel was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 52 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Grizel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Grizel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Grizel 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 Grizel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,386, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1984, the peak
Grizel peaked in 1984, when 13 girls were given it, #5,311 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #17,386 | 2.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,537 | 2.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,914 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,931 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,958 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,236 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,311 | 7.7 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,020 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Grizel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Grizel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Grizel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Grizel, and how old are they?
An estimated 50 Americans named Grizel 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 193 people named Grizel (189 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 50 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Grizel
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 Grizel and names like it
- Compare Grizel and AhsleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sGrizel peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Grizel since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Grizel.
- Names starting with GMost given first.