Gisela
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 160 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,246since 1915
Gisela over time
Rank among girls' names. Gisela has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,903 | 37 |
| 2024 | #4,294 | 33 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 |
| 2016 | #3,411 | 46 |
| 2015 | #3,211 | 51 |
| 2014 | #3,719 | 41 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 |
| 2012 | #3,006 | 56 |
| 2011 | #2,838 | 61 |
| 2010 | #2,642 | 68 |
| 2009 | #3,047 | 56 |
| 2008 | #2,334 | 83 |
| 2007 | #2,348 | 81 |
| 2006 | #1,961 | 102 |
| 2005 | #1,731 | 114 |
| 2004 | #1,684 | 115 |
| 2003 | #1,625 | 118 |
| 2002 | #2,100 | 81 |
| 2001 | #1,995 | 85 |
| 2000 | #2,158 | 74 |
| 1999 | #1,975 | 79 |
| 1998 | #1,587 | 103 |
| 1997 | #1,899 | 77 |
| 1996 | #1,583 | 98 |
| 1995 | #1,107 | 160 |
| 1994 | #1,521 | 102 |
| 1993 | #1,942 | 72 |
| 1992 | #2,105 | 64 |
| 1991 | #2,215 | 59 |
| 1990 | #1,688 | 87 |
| 1989 | #2,478 | 46 |
| 1988 | #2,011 | 59 |
| 1987 | #2,612 | 38 |
| 1986 | #2,170 | 48 |
| 1985 | #1,948 | 56 |
| 1984 | #2,515 | 37 |
| 1983 | #2,156 | 45 |
| 1982 | #2,150 | 47 |
| 1981 | #1,596 | 73 |
| 1980 | #1,766 | 62 |
| 1979 | #1,543 | 75 |
| 1978 | #1,397 | 83 |
| 1977 | #1,468 | 75 |
| 1976 | #1,286 | 85 |
| 1975 | #1,175 | 98 |
| 1974 | #1,351 | 77 |
| 1973 | #2,094 | 38 |
| 1972 | #1,832 | 46 |
| 1971 | #2,064 | 40 |
| 1970 | #2,522 | 29 |
| 1969 | #2,171 | 34 |
| 1968 | #2,431 | 26 |
| 1967 | #1,980 | 35 |
| 1966 | #1,952 | 35 |
| 1965 | #1,950 | 35 |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 36 |
| 1963 | #1,952 | 36 |
| 1962 | #1,917 | 36 |
| 1961 | #2,359 | 26 |
| 1960 | #1,982 | 33 |
| 1959 | #1,918 | 34 |
| 1958 | #1,939 | 32 |
| 1957 | #2,651 | 19 |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 |
| 1955 | #2,971 | 15 |
| 1954 | #3,019 | 14 |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 |
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 |
| 1929 | #2,921 | 10 |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 |
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| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Gisela! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1922, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Gisela is popular in 2000
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#1,002 · 1 in 6,389
- Texas#1,128 · 1 in 8,510
- California#1,424 · 1 in 13,166
Best ever in a state: #473 in New Jersey, 1976.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #1,002 | 5 | 1 in 6,389 |
| Texas | #1,128 | 18 | 1 in 8,510 |
| California | #1,424 | 17 | 1 in 13,166 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Gisela
- 391 spots since 2024 (#4,294 → #3,903)
- 125 spots since 2020 (#3,778 → #3,903)
- 692 spots since 2015 (#3,211 → #3,903)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1995 at #1,107 (160 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,991 girls born in 1995 were named Gisela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.4% of all girls named Gisela (909) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 15 | #4,274 (1915) | #4,559 |
| 1920s | 47 | #2,921 (1929) | #4,148 |
| 1930s | 32 | #3,226 (1931) | #3,782 |
| 1940s | 21 | #3,448 (1947) | #4,173 |
| 1950s | 140 | #1,918 (1959) | #3,189 |
| 1960s | 332 | #1,917 (1962) | #2,067 |
| 1970s | 646 | #1,175 (1975) | #1,673 |
| 1980s | 511 | #1,596 (1981) | #2,140 |
| 1990s | 901 | #1,107 (1995) | #1,762 |
| 2000s | 909 | #1,625 (2003) | #2,098 |
| 2010s | 480 | #2,642 (2010) | #3,411 |
| 2020s | 212 | #3,763 (2023) | #4,075 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gisela in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
More about 2000
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1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 24,541 of them was named Gisela, which outranked 87.8% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,141Sloan75
- #2,141Tressa75
- #2,141Xena75
- #2,158Gisela74
- #2,158Abrielle74
- #2,158Belle74
- #2,158Breona74
- #2,174Angelena73
- #2,174Aryn73
- #2,174Bianka73
Tied with 15 names at #2,158; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.