Gizella vs Gizelle
American parents have registered 3,131 Gizelles since 1880, against 569 Gizellas. Gizelle is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Gizella Gizelle
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 98 years in which either name was published, Gizelle for 68 years and Gizella for 30 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Gizella | Gizelle | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 569 | 3,131 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 206 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 32 |
| Estimated living today | 60 | 3,100 |
| Median age today | 46 | 17 |
| Peak year | 1916 | 2005 |
| Best rank | 1,167th girls | 1,134th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 4,352nd |
| First recorded | 1901 | 1954 |
| Girls / boys | 569 / 0 | 3,131 / 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.
Which name is older
Half of the Gizellas alive today are over 46; half the Gizelles are over 17. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Gizella Ohio (10.7×), Pennsylvania (6.5×)
- Gizelle California (5.1×), Arizona (4.7×), Texas (3.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gizella and Gizelle.