Gisella
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant feminine of Gisèle, from Germanic gisil, 'pledge'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɣiseʎa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gisella is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 4.6K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 8.5K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant feminine of Gisèle, from Germanic gisil, 'pledge'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gisella 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 5 | Gisella | 46 |
| PE Peru | #674 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Gisella | 68 |
| AR Argentina | #666 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 4 | Gisella | 67 |
| EC Ecuador | #395 | 4,285 | 1 in 3.9K | 4.3K | Gisella | 36 |
| CO Colombia | #883 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 2 | Gisella | 58 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 303 | 1 in 11K | 303 | — | 21 |
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 — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gisella is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Variant of Gisela; Germanic from gisal- 'pledge'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Lancia
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Gisella Groszb. 1875HUHungarian born German classical pianist (1875–1942)
- Gisella Selden-Gothb. 1884HUHungarian author, composer and musicologist
- Gisella Loefflerb. 1902USAustrian-born American artist
- Gisella Floreaninib. 1906ITItalian politician (1906-1993)
- Gisella Perlb. 1907ROgynecologist and author (1907–1988)
- Gisella Monaldib. 1913ITItalian actress (1913-1984)
- Gisella Sofiob. 1931ITItalian actress (1931-2017)
- Gisella Burinatob. 1946ITItalian actress
- Rosa Garcíab. 1964PEnot in their usual namePeruvian volleyball player
- Gisella Marengob. 1975ITItalian actress
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 54 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 4.3K | #389 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 303 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 298 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 5 | #1,635 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2013 | 4 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2023 | 3 | #3,671 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #119 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2010 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 are other forms of the name Gisella?
- In the etymology graph, Gisela, Giselle and Ghislaine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gisella?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣiseʎa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Gisella mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant feminine of Gisèle, from Germanic gisil, 'pledge'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Gisella a male or female name?
- Gisella 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 Gisella have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Gisella in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gisella.
- Where is Gisella most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gisella is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.9 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gisella?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,285 people named Gisella in 2024, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Gisella compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Gisella is the 395th most common given name of 27,061 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/gisellaThe 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, “Gisella” — the 395th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.