girls:
1.7k births since 1954
#4104 (28th percentile)
boys:
7 births since 1984
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1954
#6084 (21st percentile)
The name Grisel is the #6,084 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,665 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 21.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,104 (28.2% percentile) for all time with 1,658 births since 1954. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1984.
Grisel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (1954 for girls and 1984 for boys). Birth data for Grisel is available in 68 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023 (68 years for girls and 1 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 Grisel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Grisel reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 25.3% percentile (ranked #589) with 113 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 113 births per million (ranked 25.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Grisel ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 5.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Grisel reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #686) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Grisel".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Grisel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.3% confident that Grisel is pronounced as grih-SEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is grih-ZEHL, at 26.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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