Grisel
Grisel is a girl's name that peaked in 1984, when it was the 784th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 1,600 Grisels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,678
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1984
- Best rank
- 784th
- Rank in 2025
- 11,932nd
- First recorded
- 1954
- Girls / boys
- 1,671 / 7
How old the living Grisels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,678 babies given the name since 1954, about 1,600 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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 Grisel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Grisel is most concentrated in New York (4.4×), California (3.4×), Illinois (2.3×), Texas (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1984
The most popular girls’ names the year Grisel peaked:
Where Grisel lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 189 women called Grisel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Grisel | 18 | 0.032 | 2,136 |
| Palmas, Las | Grisel | 15 | 0.025 | 2,797 |
| Coruña, A | Grisel | 6 | 0.010 | 2,713 |
| Málaga | Grisel | 9 | 0.010 | 3,745 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Grisel | 10 | 0.010 | 4,342 |
| Barcelona | Grisel | 27 | 0.009 | 4,090 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 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
Grisel 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.