girls:
48.5k births since 1949
#589 (90th percentile)
boys:
44 births since 1986
#4542 (1st percentile)
overall:
48.5k births since 1949
#1098 (86th percentile)
The name Giselle is the #1,098 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 48,542 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 85.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #589 (89.7% percentile) for all time with 48,498 births since 1949. For boys, it ranks #4,542 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1986.
Giselle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for girls and 1986 for boys). Birth data for Giselle is available in 74 out of the 75 years between 1949 and 2023 (74 years for girls and 7 years for boys). 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.
The name Giselle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Giselle reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 86.5% percentile (ranked #134) with 1,227 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 1,227 births per million (ranked 86.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Giselle ranks #325 for girls (65.8% percentile) with 507 births per million, which is 41.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Giselle reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #702) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Giselle".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Giselle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.8% confident that Giselle is pronounced as jih-ZEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zhih-SEHL, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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