Giselle
#382 for girls in 2025, 803 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #8,143
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 2,596 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 50,186since 1949
Giselle over time
Rank among girls' names. Giselle has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #382 | 803 | — | |
| 2024 | #357 | 872 | — | |
| 2023 | #347 | 889 | — | |
| 2022 | #350 | 907 | — | |
| 2021 | #361 | 847 | — | |
| 2020 | #332 | 937 | — | |
| 2019 | #329 | 976 | — | |
| 2018 | #301 | 1,106 | — | |
| 2017 | #273 | 1,176 | — | |
| 2016 | #220 | 1,463 | — | |
| 2015 | #221 | 1,489 | — | |
| 2014 | #215 | 1,577 | — | |
| 2013 | #206 | 1,563 | — | |
| 2012 | #185 | 1,709 | — | |
| 2011 | #152 | 2,038 | — | |
| 2010 | #147 | 2,090 | — | |
| 2009 | #134 | 2,402 | — | |
| 2008 | #136 | 2,489 | — | |
| 2007 | #134 | 2,596 | — | |
| 2006 | #168 | 2,090 | — | |
| 2005 | #166 | 2,059 | — | |
| 2004 | #182 | 1,884 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #180 | 1,772 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #217 | 1,478 | — | |
| 2001 | #218 | 1,462 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #212 | 1,486 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #221 | 1,434 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #242 | 1,255 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #312 | 937 | — | |
| 1996 | #622 | 365 | — | |
| 1995 | #590 | 386 | — | |
| 1994 | #613 | 362 | — | |
| 1993 | #431 | 582 | — | |
| 1992 | #832 | 240 | — | |
| 1991 | #907 | 214 | — | |
| 1990 | #703 | 299 | — | |
| 1989 | #815 | 233 | — | |
| 1988 | #861 | 206 | — | |
| 1987 | #697 | 263 | — | |
| 1986 | #786 | 214 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #749 | 231 | — | |
| 1984 | #810 | 195 | — | |
| 1983 | #795 | 197 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,025 | 143 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,082 | 129 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,183 | 113 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,184 | 111 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,281 | 95 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,286 | 91 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,523 | 67 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,175 | 98 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,284 | 83 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,399 | 70 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,353 | 74 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,445 | 72 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,407 | 74 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,317 | 74 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,267 | 75 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,133 | 87 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,385 | 63 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,177 | 83 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,518 | 56 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,262 | 76 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,383 | 64 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,435 | 60 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,328 | 69 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,337 | 64 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,112 | 90 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,289 | 67 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,066 | 92 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,106 | 81 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,739 | 35 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,758 | 32 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | — | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Giselle! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Giselle
- 25 spots since 2024 (#357 → #382)
- 50 spots since 2020 (#332 → #382)
- 161 spots since 2015 (#221 → #382)
- Biggest jump: 401 spots in 1993 (#832 → #431)
- Biggest drop: 204 spots in 1991 (#703 → #907)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2007 at #134 (2,596 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1983–2025
- Highest: 1 in 741 girls born in 2007 were named Giselle (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,002 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 39.3% of all girls named Giselle (19,718) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 481 | #1,066 (1956) | #1,959 |
| 1960s | 707 | #1,133 (1967) | #1,321 |
| 1970s | 835 | #1,175 (1975) | #1,334 |
| 1980s | 1,924 | #697 (1987) | #880 |
| 1990s | 6,074 | #221 (1999) | #547 |
| 2000s | 19,718 | #134 (2007) | #175 |
| 2010s | 15,187 | #147 (2010) | #225 |
| 2020s | 5,255 | #332 (2020) | #355 |
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.
Giselle in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 1,237 of them was named Giselle, which outranked 98.7% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 240,019 of them was named Giselle, which outranked 38.5% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #7,139Giselle8
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- #7,139Abelino8
- #7,874Abad7
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Tied with 734 names at #7,139; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.