Gisèle

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gisèle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a female given name, a popular spelling variant of Giselle.

rarermore common
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 12K
  • USUnited States1 in 51K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

150,212 people, 2022

Sources
278 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gisele in BR Brazil, FR France, US United States and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name, a popular spelling variant of Giselle

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gisèle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gisèle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—150,2121 in 1.4K165KGisele8
US United States—6,5381 in 51K6.5KGisele278
FR France#298≈5,600 est.≈1 in 12K137KGisele260
CM Cameroon#124≈5,400 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Gisele19
CD Congo - Kinshasa#331≈2,600 est.≈1 in 39K3Gisele10
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 14K—Gisele13
UY Uruguay—1321 in 26K132——

150,212 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gisèle is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gisele, Giséle, Giselé

  • Portuguese given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili

    Also written Gisele, Giséle, Gísele, Giselé, Gïsëlë

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Gisele

  • French (Burkina Faso) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Burkina Faso

    Also written Gisele

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Gisela of Burgundy, b. 950Gisèle de France, b. 960Gisela of Swabia, b. 990Gisèle Freund, b. 1908Gisèle Casadesus, b. 1914Gisèle Prassinos, b. 1920Gisèle Halimi, b. 1927Bat Ye'or, b. 1933Sheila, b. 1945Gisèle Pelicot, b. 1952

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Gisèle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024137K#653
CD Congo - KinshasaWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—3#225
FR FranceDictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gisèle mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name, a popular spelling variant of Giselle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Gisèle a male or female name?
Gisèle is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Gisèle?
In the etymology graph, Gisela, Giselle and Ghislaine are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Gisèle have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 150 thousand people named Gisèle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gisele.
Where is Gisèle most common?
Gisèle is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gisèle?
In Brazil, the national register counted 150,212 people named Gisèle in 2022, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
How common is Gisèle compared with other names?
In Cameroon, Gisèle is the 124th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gisèle” — the 124th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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