Gisela
Gisela reached its high-water mark in 1995 at number 1,107, and has been recorded 4,246 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,903rd. About 4,000 Giselas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Gisela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,246
- Estimated living today
- 4,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1995
- Best rank
- 1,107th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,903rd
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Giselas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,246 babies given the name since 1915, about 4,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 830 of them are children and 160 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Giselas
- Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856–1932)Austrian Imperial and Royal
- Gisela of Hungary (985–1065)German princess, Hungarian queen consort and Roman Catholic blessed
- Gisela Dulko (born 1985)Argentine tennis player
- Gisela of Swabia (990–1043)11th century empress of the Holy Roman Empire
- Gisela (born 1979)Spanish singer and actress
- Gisela Mauermayer (1913–1995)German discus thrower
- Gisela of Burgundy (950–1006)French princess
- Gisela, Abbess of Chelles (757–810)Roman Catholic nun and abbess
People named Gisela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gisela is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gisela is most concentrated in Texas (4.1×), California (4.1×), New York (1.9×), Arizona (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1995
The most popular girls’ names the year Gisela peaked:
Gisela elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Gisela | 2,527 | 56th |
| France girls | Gisela | 115 | 541st |
| England and Wales girls | Gisela | 26 | 3,409th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Gisela among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Gisela | 92 | 159 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Gisela lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 9,531 women called Gisela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarragona | Gisela | 500 | 1.144 | 151 |
| Barcelona | Gisela | 3,380 | 1.111 | 148 |
| Girona | Gisela | 336 | 0.811 | 187 |
| Lleida | Gisela | 132 | 0.593 | 238 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Gisela | 299 | 0.539 | 239 |
| Palmas, Las | Gisela | 311 | 0.527 | 249 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Gisela against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.