Given name
Gísli
“hostage”
Gísli is a masculine given name from Old Norse, meaning “hostage.” It is used in Faroese and Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
Gísli’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Gísli
- Gísli Þorgeir KristjánssonIcelandic handball playerborn 1999
- Gísli Örn GarðarssonIcelandic film producer and authorborn 1973
- Gísli ÞórðarsonIcelandic footballer (born 2004)
- Gísli Halldórssonactor (1927-1998)
- Gísli EyjólfssonIcelandic association football playerborn 1994
- Gísli GuðjónssonIcelandic psychologistborn 1947
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