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Gisell vs Gisselle

American parents have registered 10,551 Gisselles since 1880, against 1,874 Gisells. Gisselle is still ahead, with 111 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gisell against Gisselle, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gisell Gisselle

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, Gisselle for 55 years and Gisell for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Gisell Gisselle
Total US births 1,87410,551
Most in one year 102810
Babies in 2025 16111
Estimated living today 1,90010,000
Median age today 2121
Peak year 20052000
Best rank 1,894th girls367th girls
Rank in 2025 6,838th1,808th
First recorded 19791966
Girls / boys 1,874 / 010,551 / 0

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

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

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gisell and Gisselle.