Gitel
Girl · GIT-el · Germanic
Gitel is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “good”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Gitel mean?
Germanic: spelling of Gittel; Yiddish name, from gut 'good'
“good”
A traditional Yiddish name, often paired with the Hebrew name Tova, which also means good.
- Say it
- GIT-el
Meaning borrowed from Gittel.
Is Gitel a girl's or a boy's name?
Gitel is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gitel in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Gitel, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 1978, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
2025 had more girls named Gitel than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Gitel in the US since 1880 were born between 1987 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 51 girls in the US were given Gitel or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,538, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
- Gittel 45
- Gitel 6
Gitel in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,045 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,562 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,890 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,171 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,361 |
Names like Gitel
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Gitel
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