Gricelda vs Grisel
American parents have registered 1,678 Grisels since 1880, against 1,577 Griceldas. Grisel is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Gricelda Grisel
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 72 years in which either name was published, Grisel for 42 years and Gricelda for 30 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.
- 1954–1971 Grisel ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1972–1983 Gricelda ahead
- 1984–1986 Grisel ahead
- 1987–1996 Gricelda ahead
- 2000–2025 Grisel ahead, apart from 3 short spells
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Gricelda | Grisel | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,577 | 1,678 |
| Most in one year | 60 | 211 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 7 |
| Estimated living today | 1,500 | 1,600 |
| Median age today | 40 | 40 |
| Peak year | 1983 | 1984 |
| Best rank | 1,770th girls | 784th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 11,932nd |
| First recorded | 1952 | 1954 |
| Girls / boys | 1,577 / 0 | 1,671 / 7 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Where each one is strongest
- Gricelda California (6.8×), Texas (3.1×), Illinois (1.3×)
- Grisel New York (4.4×), California (3.4×), Illinois (2.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gricelda and Grisel.