Giselle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French feminine form from gisal- 'pledge'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/çiseʎe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giselle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 82nd most common given name.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 4.9K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 5.5K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
40,347 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French feminine form from gisal- 'pledge'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giselle 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 40,347 | 1 in 8.2K | 40K | Giselle | 330 |
| BR Brazil | #735 | 14,848 | 1 in 14K | 15K | Giselle | 164 |
| AR Argentina | #331 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 45 | Giselle | 109 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Giselle | 64 |
| CR Costa Rica | #82 | 3,558 | 1 in 1.4K | 3.6K | Giselle | 50 |
| CL Chile | #516 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 16 | Giselle | 71 |
| PY Paraguay | #287 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Giselle | 27 |
40,347 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Giselle is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Germanic. See Gisela in German supplement. Also: Gisele.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Portuguese, a female given name; alternative form of Gisela
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, From Germanic gisil, 'pledge, hostage'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gisèle Pascalb. 1921FRnot in their usual nameactress (1921-2007)
- Giselle Fernándezb. 1961MXAmerican journalist
- Beyoncéb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter (born 1981)
- Giselle Itiéb. 1981MXBrazilian actress
- Giselle Rossellib. 1990AUAustralian singer-songwriter
- Gigi Gorgeousb. 1992CAnot in their usual nameCanadian YouTuber, socialite, actress, and model
- Giselle Kurib. 1993MXMexican actress
- Giselle Palmerb. 1995USAmerican pornographic actress
- Giselle Nietob. 2003USAmerican actress
- Giselle Gilbertactress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40K | #1,039 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 15K | #1,298 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 9.5K | #2,245 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3.6K | #218 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 803 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 83 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 79 | #1,039 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 56 | #1,298 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 45 | #1,115 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 8 | — |
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 Giselle mean, and where does it come from?
- French feminine form from gisal- 'pledge'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Giselle?
- A machine transcription gives /çiseʎe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Giselle?
- In the etymology graph, Gilbert, Gisela and Gisele are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Giselle a male or female name?
- Giselle 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.
- In which country does Giselle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Giselle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giselle.
- Where is Giselle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Giselle is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Giselle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,347 people named Giselle in 2020, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Giselle compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Giselle is the 82nd most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giselleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Giselle” — the 82nd most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.