girls:
5.3k births since 1923
#2317 (59th percentile)
overall:
5.3k births since 1923
#3760 (51st percentile)
The name Gisele is the #3,760 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,279 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 51.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,317 (59.5% percentile) for all time with 5,279 births since 1923.
Gisele first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (first recorded for girls in 1923). Birth data for Gisele is available in 93 out of the 101 years between 1923 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Gisele reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 24.8% percentile (ranked #578) with 96 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 116 births per million (ranked 23.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Gisele ranks #892 for girls (5.8% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 29.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gisele".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Gisele. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.9% confident that Gisele is pronounced as jih-ZEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zhih-ZEHL, at 24.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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