Giselda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Gisela
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒizɛldɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giselda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 28K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 45K
- UYUruguay1 in 79K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
7,440 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante de Gisela.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giselda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 7,440 | 1 in 28K | 8.7K | — | — |
| US United States | 285 | 1 in 1.2M | 284 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | 69 | 1 in 45K | 69 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 43 | 1 in 79K | 43 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 23 | 1 in 2.2M | 23 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 9 | 1 in 566K | 9 | — | — |
7,440 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giselda Fojanesib. 1851ITItalian writer and educator (1851-1946)
- Leda Gysb. 1892ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1892-1957)
- Giselda Zanib. 1909ITUruguayan writer (1909–1975)
- Giselda Leirnerb. 1928BRBrazilian artist and writer
- Giselda Laporta Nicolelisb. 1938BRBrazilian writer
- Giselda Medeirosb. 1939BRBrazilian writer
- Giselda Castrinib. 1945ITItalian actress
- Giselda Antonellib. 1948ITItalian sociologist (born 1948)
- Giselda Volodib. 1959ITItalian actress
- Giselda Adornatob. 1959ITItalian historian (born 1959)
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 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 8.7K | #2,360 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 8.6K | #1,016 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.4K | #2,083 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 7.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 7.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 4.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 1.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 1.3K | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Giselda mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante de Gisela. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Giselda?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒizɛldɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Giselda a male or female name?
- Giselda 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 Giselda have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.4 thousand people named Giselda, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Giselda most common?
- Giselda is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 28 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Giselda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,440 people named Giselda in 2022, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Giselda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giseldaThe 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, “Giselda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.