Gisele
Where Gisele comes from
Gisele hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1923First appearance#4,376 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1957Peak, #702201 babies named Gisele — more than any year before or since.
- 1960The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,097.
- 1980Gisele Bündchen bornBrazilian fashion model
- 1987Gisele Marvin bornice hockey player
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Gisele Bündchen · Brazilian fashion model, born 1980
- Gisele Marvin · ice hockey player, born 1987
- Gisele MacKenzie · Canadian singer and actress, 1927–2003
- Gisele de Oliveira · Brazilian athletics competitor, born 1980
- Gisele Barreto Fetterman · Second Lady of Pennsylvania from 2019 to 2023, born 1982
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.