Given name
Ghislaine
“born of the sweet oath”
Ghislaine is used as a given name. One French interpretation is “born of the sweet oath.”
Original FrenchGhyslaine
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “born of the sweet oath.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
From French Ghislaine, built from French Ghislain + -e.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1951. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ghislaine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 190
- 0 boys · 190 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,250 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ghislaine’s family of names
In French usage, Ghislaine has a diminutive in Ghighi. In French usage, Ghislaine has a related form in Gislaine. Ghislaine has a related form in Ghislain.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Ghislaine
- Ghislaine MaxwellBritish socialite and sex trafficker, daughter of Robert Maxwell, accomplice of Jeffrey Epsteinborn 1961
- Ghislaine DommangetPrincess Consort of Monaco, French actress1900–1991
- Ghislaine DupontFrench journalist (1956–2013)
- Ghislaine LandryCanadian rugby union and sevens playerborn 1988
- Ghislaine ThesmarFrench ballet dancer (born 1943)
- Ghislaine SathoudCongolese writerborn 1969
- Ghislaine Royer-SouefFrench association football playerborn 1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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