Gissel
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 143 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,563since 1977
Gissel over time
Rank among girls' names. Gissel 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 |
| 2017 | #4,695 | 29 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 |
| 2014 | #3,369 | 47 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 |
| 2012 | #2,901 | 59 |
| 2011 | #2,216 | 85 |
| 2010 | #2,028 | 98 |
| 2009 | #1,838 | 116 |
| 2008 | #1,620 | 140 |
| 2007 | #1,621 | 137 |
| 2006 | #1,788 | 116 |
| 2005 | #1,589 | 128 |
| 2004 | #1,373 | 152 |
| 2003 | #1,383 | 145 |
| 2002 | #1,308 | 149 |
| 2001 | #1,311 | 146 |
| 2000 | #1,344 | 140 |
| 1999 | #1,283 | 143 |
| 1998 | #1,597 | 102 |
| 1997 | #1,945 | 74 |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 |
| 1994 | #2,627 | 47 |
| 1993 | #3,221 | 35 |
| 1992 | #4,382 | 23 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Gissel! It came in at #9,652, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Gissel
- 2,386 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #4,546)
- 941 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #4,546)
- 631 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #4,546)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1999 at #1,283 (143 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,060 girls born in 2002 were named Gissel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,576 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,283 in 1999, was only 1 in 12,404 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 53.4% of all girls named Gissel (1,369) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 18 | #6,948 (1978) | #8,937 |
| 1980s | 78 | #5,049 (1989) | #7,126 |
| 1990s | 508 | #1,283 (1999) | #3,566 |
| 2000s | 1,369 | #1,308 (2002) | #1,518 |
| 2010s | 476 | #2,028 (2010) | #4,112 |
| 2020s | 114 | #4,546 (2025) | #6,797 |
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.
Gissel in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 12,404 of them was named Gissel, which outranked 92.4% 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).
- #1,279Kai144
- #1,279Mahogany144
- #1,279Tyana144
- #1,283Gissel143
- #1,283Autum143
- #1,283Breeanna143
- #1,283Bryce143
- #1,293Addie142
- #1,293Ivory142
- #1,293Katheryn142
Tied with 9 names at #1,283; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.