Name meaning & stats
Gissel
Gissel means “pledge” (French origin). 2,563 US babies since 1940, peak 2004.
What it means
“pledge”
FrenchSpelling of Giselle
In US birth records
Peak year: 2004
2,563 US babies were named Gissel between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Gissel (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 31 Giselles spell it Gissel
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2004)