Gizelle

Where Gizelle comes from

The dictionaries list Gizelle as a given name — a female given name from French, variant of Giselle — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1954
    First appearance
    #4,278 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2005
    Peak, #1,134
    206 babies named Gizelle — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,977.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French, variant of Giselle.
Namesakes

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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.