Gisele
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: French form of Gisela; from gisal- 'pledge' (Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 38 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ʒiˈze.le/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Gisele is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 150,212 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.7Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 2K
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)
- Record sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
150,212 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gisele
- Portuguese:/ʒiˈze.le/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/ɣisele/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)French form of Gisela; from gisal- 'pledge'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gisele is read
(measured from records)Gisele is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese38%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gisele in Portuguese.
- French27%
French form of Gisela; from gisal- 'pledge'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Forme dérivée de Ghislaine; origine germanique, « douce otage ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du germanique *gisil* « gage, otage noble ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Spanish25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gisele in Spanish.
- English8.2%
French/Portuguese form; gloss not stated
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Gisele, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gisele 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 | #272 | 150,212 | 1 in 1.4K | 165K | Gisele | 200 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #991 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 3 | Gisele | 10 |
| FR France | — | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 137K | — | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | #783 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Gisele | 9 |
| US United States | — | 6,538 | 1 in 51K | 6.5K | Gisele | 225 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 22 | Gisele | 24 |
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; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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)- Gisele MacKenzieb. 1927CACanadian singer and actress (1927–2003)
- Gisele Silverb. 1976ILIsraeli actress, formerly known as Osnat Hakim
- Gisele Bündchenb. 1980BRBrazilian fashion model
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)64 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 38 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gisele mean, and where does it come from?
- French form of Gisela; from gisal- 'pledge'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What are other forms of the name Gisele?
- In the etymology graph, Giselle and Gisselle are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gisele?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ʒiˈze.le/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ɣisele/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Gisele a male or female name?
- Gisele is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Gisele?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 150 thousand people named Gisele, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gisele. After it come Congo - Kinshasa, France, Cameroon and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gisele most common?
- Gisele is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gisele?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 150,212 people named Gisele in 2022, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Gisele compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Gisele is the 272nd most common given name of 474,894 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/giseleThe 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, “Gisele” — ranked 227th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.