Giselle
Giselle reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 134, and has been recorded 50,230 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 382nd. About 50,000 Giselles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Giselle boys named Giselle
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 50,230
- Estimated living today
- 50,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 134th
- Rank in 2025
- 382nd
- First recorded
- 1949
- Girls / boys
- 50,186 / 44
How old the living Giselles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 50,230 babies given the name since 1949, about 50,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 25,000 of them are children and 450 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Giselles
- Giselle Itié (born 1981)Brazilian actress
- Giselle Ansley (born 1992)British field hockey player
- Giselle Kañevsky (born 1985)field hockey player
- Giselle Laronde (born 1963)Miss World 1986
People named Giselle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Giselle is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Giselle is most concentrated in Nevada (4.2×), California (3.2×), Arizona (2.6×), Texas (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Giselle peaked:
Giselle elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Giselle | 7,105 | 108th |
| England and Wales girls | Giselle | 639 | 779th |
| Italy girls | Giselle | 443 | — |
| Belgium girls | Giselle | 144 | 535th |
| France boys | Giselle | 10 | 793rd |
| Ireland girls | Giselle | 7 | 742nd |
| Poland girls | Giselle | 2 birth registrations | 658th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Giselle: rank by region
In 2025, Giselle was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Giselle | 391 | 13 |
In 2018, Giselle was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Giselle | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Giselle appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (138th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Giselle among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Giselle | 23 | 39 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Giselle lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,082 women called Giselle were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Giselle | 169 | 0.287 | 405 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Giselle | 123 | 0.222 | 503 |
| Balears, Illes | Giselle | 47 | 0.075 | 949 |
| Salamanca | Giselle | 10 | 0.059 | 939 |
| Barcelona | Giselle | 171 | 0.056 | 1,091 |
| Lleida | Giselle | 10 | 0.045 | 1,322 |
Listed in 35 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 17 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Giselle against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.