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Jisel

Gender
Girl
Say it
hee-SEL
Origin
Germanic

Jisel is a girls' name of Germanic origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Jisel come from?

Germanic: spelling of Jissel; perhaps a Spanish-style spelling of Giselle

Meaning borrowed from Jissel.

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

Jisel is a girls' name.

How popular is Jisel 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 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the girls named Jisel in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 28 in 19992015
Jisel in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20155#16,413
20148#11,925
20136#14,577
20127#13,477
20119#11,175
201017#7,214
200915#8,054
200818#7,069
200717#7,390
200624#5,544
200524#5,261
200418#6,484
200327#4,663
200223#5,082
200123#5,004
200021#5,307
199928#4,084
199819#5,359
199711#7,737
19965#13,511
19956#11,778
199413#6,666
19936#11,773
199210#8,057
19910–
19907#10,187

Names like Jisel

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Jisel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jisel, updated 20 October 2026.