Griselda
#3,296 for girls in 2025, 47 births · Last seen for boys in 1991 at #8,236
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 271 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,124since 1906
Griselda over time
Rank among girls' names. Griselda has never cracked the top 600 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 | #3,296 | 47 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,575 | 43 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,399 | 45 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,614 | 42 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,060 | 54 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,906 | 59 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,102 | 96 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,206 | 90 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,015 | 101 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,846 | 110 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,668 | 119 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,667 | 116 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,284 | 162 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,275 | 154 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,499 | 125 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,266 | 154 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,099 | 181 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,118 | 172 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,058 | 180 | — | |
| 1996 | #998 | 188 | — | |
| 1995 | #822 | 239 | — | |
| 1994 | #844 | 236 | — | |
| 1993 | #697 | 307 | — | |
| 1992 | #835 | 239 | — | |
| 1991 | #763 | 270 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #728 | 287 | — | |
| 1989 | #755 | 260 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #868 | 203 | — | |
| 1987 | #878 | 193 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #780 | 217 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #753 | 229 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #713 | 232 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #815 | 189 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #835 | 187 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #652 | 271 | — | |
| 1980 | #690 | 250 | — | |
| 1979 | #679 | 253 | — | |
| 1978 | #750 | 206 | — | |
| 1977 | #802 | 187 | — | |
| 1976 | #747 | 194 | — | |
| 1975 | #804 | 171 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #807 | 167 | — | |
| 1973 | #734 | 191 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #919 | 134 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,148 | 101 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,168 | 99 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,054 | 108 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,223 | 80 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,428 | 60 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,488 | 55 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,635 | 47 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,593 | 51 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,683 | 46 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,073 | 32 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,887 | 36 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,985 | 32 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,820 | 36 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,416 | 22 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,826 | 17 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,095 | 14 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,450 | 20 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,516 | 18 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,411 | 19 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,577 | 16 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,781 | 14 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,726 | 14 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,701 | 14 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 | — | |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 | — | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
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| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
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| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
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| 1906 | #1,951 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Griselda! It came in at #1,951, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1906–1922, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Griselda is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#524 · 1 in 3,188
- California#537 · 1 in 3,299
- Illinois#753 · 1 in 5,417
- Arizona#791 · 1 in 4,869
- North Carolina#1,015 · 1 in 8,418
Best ever in a state: #224 in Nevada, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #524 | 45 | 1 in 3,188 |
| California | #537 | 67 | 1 in 3,299 |
| Illinois | #753 | 13 | 1 in 5,417 |
| Arizona | #791 | 6 | 1 in 4,869 |
| North Carolina | #1,015 | 5 | 1 in 8,418 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
| Colorado | — | — | — |
| Connecticut | — | — | — |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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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 Griselda
- 279 spots since 2024 (#3,575 → #3,296)
- 103 spots since 2020 (#3,399 → #3,296)
- 237 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #3,296)
- Biggest jump: 229 spots in 1972 (#1,148 → #919)
- Biggest drop: 183 spots in 1982 (#652 → #835)
- Debuted 1906
- Peaked 1981 at #652 (271 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1972–1996
- Highest: 1 in 5,893 girls born in 1993 were named Griselda (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,197 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #652 in 1981, was only 1 in 6,155 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.2% of all girls named Griselda (2,299) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,951 (1906) | #1,951 |
| 1910s | 5 | #3,187 (1913) | #3,187 |
| 1920s | 23 | #4,286 (1927) | #4,455 |
| 1930s | 41 | #2,689 (1936) | #3,682 |
| 1940s | 77 | #2,701 (1948) | #3,641 |
| 1950s | 208 | #1,820 (1958) | #2,488 |
| 1960s | 550 | #1,054 (1969) | #1,602 |
| 1970s | 1,703 | #679 (1979) | #856 |
| 1980s | 2,231 | #652 (1981) | #774 |
| 1990s | 2,299 | #697 (1993) | #896 |
| 2000s | 1,227 | #1,266 (2000) | #1,683 |
| 2010s | 489 | #2,906 (2010) | #3,301 |
| 2020s | 266 | #3,181 (2023) | #3,500 |
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.
Griselda in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 10,273 of them was named Griselda, which outranked 93.3% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,112Lissette173
- #1,112Symone173
- #1,112Xena173
- #1,118Griselda172
- #1,118Aubrie172
- #1,118Brieanna172
- #1,118Flor172
- #1,123Kayle171
- #1,123Tabatha171
- #1,125Irma170
Tied with 4 names at #1,118; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.