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Geselle

Girl · zhuh-ZEL · Germanic

Geselle is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “pledge”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Geselle mean?

Germanic: variant of Giselle, from Germanic gisil

“pledge”

A variant of Giselle, a French name from the Germanic word gisil, meaning pledge.

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Is Geselle a girl's or a boy's name?

Geselle is a girls' name.

How popular is Geselle in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1999, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1983.

Half of all the girls named Geselle in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

1983Busiest: 20 in 19992019
Geselle in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20195#15,532
20180–
20175#15,898
20160–
20155#16,413
20145#16,507
20130–
20126#14,956
20117#13,339
20107#13,442
200912#9,375
200815#8,105
200720#6,548
200612#9,282
200516#7,133
200411#9,259
200311#9,043
200212#8,274
20018#11,013
200013#7,574
199920#5,213
199819#5,359
199718#5,413
19965#13,511
19955#13,380
19940–
19938#9,552
19925#13,308
19910–
19900–
19890–
19886#10,381
19875#11,320
19860–
19850–
19840–
19835#10,272

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