How Many People Are Named Gissel?

2,534

people named Gissel are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 134,879 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,563 babies named Gissel in Social Security records from 1977 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,777

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,239

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Peak Year

2004

152 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Gissel in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Gissel alive today is about 21 years old, and 90% are under 30. Half of them were between 16 and 25 in 2025.

Under 30 2,281
90%
30 to 59 253
10%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Gissel first appears in the records in 1977 and was given most often in 2004, to 152 babies. In 2025, 30 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1977 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Gissel has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,286, in 1999. In 2025 it ranked #4,591.

Girls
Rank in 2025#4,591
Best rank#1,286 (1999)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,529 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Gissel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Gissel were born in California than in any other state: about 748 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Gissel was given 3.1 times as often in California, 2.7 times in Arizona and 2.5 times in Texas.

California 748
Texas 427
New York 124
Illinois 97
Arizona 94
Florida 60
Georgia 37
New Jersey 14
North Carolina 11
Maryland 5
Kansas 5
Oklahoma 5
Oregon 5
Colorado 5
Virginia 5
Washington 5

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