How rare is the name Giselle?

40,347 people in the United States have the first name Giselle, about 1 in 7,486. It ranks #1,039 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GISELLE

#1,039

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
40,347
About
1 in 7,486
This common or more
70.6%
Who bears it

Of the 40,347 people named Giselle, 79.3% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 9.9% as White and 5.9% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Giselle peaked in 2007, when 2,596 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19492025
Peak year
2007
Births that year
2,596
In 2025*
803 ▼69%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 50,230 babies have been given the name since 1949. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Giselle by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #371. The largest share of babies named Giselle, 58.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#12,5745
1950s#2,453481
1960s#2,150707
1970s#2,166835
1980s#1,4681,932
1990s#8196,087
2000s#37119,741
2010s#46915,187
2020s#7335,255
Baby boom 1946–641.6%
Generation X 1965–802.6%
Millennials 1981–968.5%
Generation Z 1997–1258.2%
2013 and later29.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Giselle is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Giselle has been most common in Nevada (4.3×), California (3.2×), and Arizona (2.6×), and least common in Mississippi (0.07×).

48,183 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Giselle

#1,037 Griffin · 40,385#1,038 Adrianna · 40,364#1,040 Paola · 40,331#1,041 Laurel · 40,185

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Giselle, most common first.

#2,098 Gisela · 12,810#2,665 Gisselle · 8,830#3,262 Gisele · 6,538#6,284 Gizelle · 2,567#6,335 Gisel · 2,547#7,535 Gisella · 2,014#8,322 Gisell · 1,748#10,360 Gissell · 1,293

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