Giselle

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Giselle: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Giselle: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #677 in 2004, and it stood at #1,449 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#677highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#1365
1998	#1571
1999	#1473
2000	#1250
2001	#898
2002	#998
2003	#1472
2004	#883
2005	#802
2006	#1052
2007	#899
2008	#779
2009	#865
2010	#1013
2011	#1067
2012	#1387
2013	#1587
2014	#1272
2015	#1497
2016	#1472
2017	#1911
2018	#1649
2019	#2458
2020	#1846
2021	#2201
2022	#2673
2023	#2201
2024	#1449

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2009: #742 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #865 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1168 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2009
Highest recorded position: #677 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 2004–2009).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1449 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Giselle appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 625 births with the name.

Giselle across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Giselle's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1168 (1996)	#779 (2008)	#1449 (2024)	29 of 29	625 (1996–2024)	44 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#677 (2004)	#742 (2009)	2 of 6	7 (2004–2009)	4 (2009)

Giselle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Giselle in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	52	4 of 10	13
2000sbusiest	284	10 of 10	28
2010s	219	10 of 10	22
2020s	70	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 28 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Giselle appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #677 in Republic of Ireland in 2004.

Giselle's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1449	22	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1911	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1472	22	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1497	21	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1587	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1387	23	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1067	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#865	39	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#779	44	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#899	34	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1052	26	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#802	35	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#883	30	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#998	22	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#898	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1571	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1168	16	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #677, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Giovanni · #299, 31y
Gisele · #1702, 23y
Gisle · #142, 55y
Gitte · #134, 40y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Fatoumata · #677, 26y
Jael · #677, 24y
Maha · #677, 29y
Neda · #677, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alyx · #677, 19y
Comfort · #677, 21y
Enola · #677, 23y
Fatoumata · #677, 26y

Giselle was ranked #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Giselle and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Giselle without appearing here.

Giselle moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1846 and #5493.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1911 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1649 and #4684.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1846 and #4535.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1449 and #3695.

Moved ahead of Giselle

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1846 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2201 and #1286.
Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #802 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1052 and #456.
Ezra Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1472 and #1689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #1911 and #1411.
Ingrid Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1272 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1497 and #1007.

Moved the opposite way to Giselle

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Giselle went from #898 to #1449 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Giselle went from #883 to #1449 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Giselle went from #1013 to #1449 while Rory went from #5707 to #1603.

Moved the same way as Giselle

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Giselle went from #1168 to #2201 and Kristin from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Giselle went from #1168 to #2201 and Therese from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Giselle went from #1168 to #2201 and Tracey from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Giselle went from #1168 to #2201 and Carol from #802 to #3519.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #677 in Republic of Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Giselle

Giselle at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Giselle across 2 official records

Giselle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Giselle appears in

Popularity data

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Giselle at a glance

Giselle across 2 official records

Giselle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Giselle

Giselle and the names beside it

Giselle moved ahead of

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