Gisel vs Gisell

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Gisel Gisell

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Gisel for 45 years and Gisell for 11 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

• 1969–2025 Gisel ahead, apart from 6 short spells

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

• Gisel California (4.7×), Texas (3.3×), Arizona (2.7×)
• Gisell Arizona (5.6×), California (5.2×), Texas (3.1×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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