Gissell
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- hee-SEL
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Gissell is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “pledge”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Gissell mean?
Germanic: spelling of Gissel; Spanish-style spelling of Giselle
“pledge”
Variant of Giselle, from the Germanic element gisil, 'pledge'.
Meaning borrowed from Gissel.
Is Gissell a girl's or a boy's name?
Gissell is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gissell in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Gissell, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2000, with 103 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.
Half of all the girls named Gissell in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 72 girls in the US were given Gissell or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,103, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Gissell in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,420 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,294 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,451 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,408 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,511 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,773 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,541 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,887 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,632 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,152 |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,000 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,982 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,897 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,701 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,202 |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,395 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,508 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 15 | #5,978 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,518 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,861 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,031 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,773 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,045 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,222 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
Names like Gissell
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Giselle, Campbell, Skylar, Chloe, Gianna, Zoe, Avery, Emma, Jordyn, Aubrey, Harley, Peyton
Other spellings of Gissell
Names related to Gissell
More Germanic names
Amelia, Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Millie, Albie, Matilda, Louie, Miles, Alice
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Gissell: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gissell, updated 20 October 2026.