Gisele

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gisele is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French form of Gisela; from gisal- 'pledge'.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.4K◐
  • ARArgentina1 in 3.3K
  • USUnited States1 in 51K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈295K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
210 ●

197K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 494 ◐

France

Meaning & origin●

French form of Gisela; from gisal- 'pledge'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gisele is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#415209,895129K rec.—3Gisele84
BR Brazil#227150,212△54K rec.1 in 1.4K165KGisele195
FR France—137,315△1 rec.1 in 494137K—2
US United States—6,5257.5K rec.1 in 51K6.5KGisele210
MX Mexico—1,192712 rec.—8Gisele58
PE Peru—749571 rec.——Gisele24
UY Uruguay#702707457 rec.—1Gisele21
CL Chile—69358 rec.—3Gisele28
CA Canada—608552 rec.—1Gisele64
PT Portugal#911498144 rec.—listedGisele40
ES Spain—4861.2K rec.1 in 103K486Gisele49
CO Colombia—431159 rec.—1Gisele33

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Languages●

  • Portuguese2.2M72%
  • French424K14%
  • Spanish219K7%
  • English192K6%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)6.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese2,172,17272%
French424,39214%
Spanish219,0037%
English191,6646%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)6,8071%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gisele is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name645K records spelled Gisele43 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Brazil, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, English, Catalan

    Also written Gisèle, Gisela, Giséle, Gisèla, Giséla

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name7.2K records spelled Gisele2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Gisèle

  • a separate given name3.2K records spelled Gisele4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Morocco

    Also written Gisèle, Giséle, Giselé

  • Russian given name481 records spelled Gisele20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Ukrainian

    Also written Жизель, Giselle, Gisel, Zhizel', Zhizel

  • Lao given name307 records spelled Gisele4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Canada

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Gisèle, Giselé

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Gisele is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, French/Portuguese form; gloss not stated

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  • In French, Forme dérivée de Ghislaine; origine germanique, « douce otage ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Du germanique *gisil* « gage, otage noble ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010020030019401960198020002020234 · 2009

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Gisele in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1923–2025
Yearrecords
19236
19247
19257
192610
19275
19287
19295
193014
193116
19329
19349
19355
19366
19397
19405
19435
19445
19469
19479
19506
195117
195224
195329
195448
1955141
1956179
1957201
1958170
1959120
196096
196164
196282
1963101
196469
196557
196658
196738
196829
196933
197022
197125
197217
197323
197417
197514
197618
197726
197826
197913
198011
198118
198213
198316
198416
198515
198617
198717
198822
198918
199022
199118
199215
199318
199421
199521
199613
199724
199835
199939
200054
200170
200264
200386
2004103
2005142
2006179
2007209
2008223
2009234
2010177
2011162
2012127
2013128
2014162
2015139
2016154
2017110
201892
201989
202078
202175
202264
202360
202459
202553

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 95 years between 1923–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Gisele MacKenzie, b. 1927Gisele Ben-Dor, b. 1955Gisele Miró, b. 1968Gisele Fraga, b. 1970Gisele Silver, b. 1976Gisele Bündchen, b. 1980Gisele de Oliveira, b. 1980Gisele Barreto Fetterman, b. 1982Gisele Marvin, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 63 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Gisele
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—165K#307
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022150K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—150K#227
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.5K#3,262
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020767—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—583#227
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—486#4,655
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—459#2,262
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—132#6,406
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—112#7,925
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—88#5,982
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202067—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 478 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gisele?
We estimate roughly 295 thousand people bear Gisele (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Gisele have the most bearers?
Gisele is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled gisele.
Where is Gisele most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gisele is densest in France — about 1 in 494 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Gisele compared with other names?
In Argentina, Gisele is the 415th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Gisele a male or female name?
Gisele is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Gisele mean?
Recorded meaning: French form of Gisela; from gisal- 'pledge'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gisele” — the 415th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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