# Gisele (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gisele/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,391 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,391 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 176, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 162 | 1,411 |
| 2012 | 127 | 1,676 |
| 2013 | 128 | 1,662 |
| 2014 | 162 | 1,411 |
| 2015 | 139 | 1,577 |
| 2016 | 154 | 1,490 |
| 2017 | 110 | 1,856 |
| 2018 | 92 | 2,092 |
| 2019 | 89 | 2,119 |
| 2020 | 78 | 2,292 |
| 2021 | 75 | 2,394 |
| 2022 | 64 | 2,708 |
| 2023 | 60 | 2,831 |
| 2024 | 59 | 2,835 |
| 2025 | 53 | 3,081 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 13 | 1,993 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2,636 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,649 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,702 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,705 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,502 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,674 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,519 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## People named Gisele

- Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian fashion model
- Gisèle Halimi, French-Tunisian lawyer, feminist and politician (1927–2020)
- Gisèle Casadesus, French actress (1914-2017)
- Gisèle Freund, French photographer (1908–2000)
- Gisèle Prassinos, French artist (1920–2015)
- Gisèle Pineau, French writer
- Gisèle Sapiro, French sociologist
- Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer and actress (1927–2003)
- Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht, Dutch artist, publisher and painter (1912-2013)
- Gisela of Swabia, 11th century empress of the Holy Roman Empire
- Bat Ye'or, essayist, penwoman, conspiracy theorist (1933-)
- Sheila, French recording artist and yé-yé singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.