Name meaning & stats
Giselle
Giselle means “pledge” (French origin). 50,230 US babies since 1940, peak 2007.
What it means
“pledge”
FrenchWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2007
50,230 US babies were named Giselle between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Giselle (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 64% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2007)