Given name
Gizella
“of God's promise; a hostage”
Gizella is a variant of Giselle. One French interpretation is “of God's promise; a hostage.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gizella is a variant of Giselle. One French interpretation is “of God's promise; a hostage.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Gizella is a variant of Giselle. An origin associated with Giselle is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1901. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gizella through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 569
- 0 boys · 569 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 37 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 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 362 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.
Gizella’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Gizella has a diminutive in Gizi. Gizella has a related form in Giselle. In Hungarian usage, Gizella has a conventional equivalent in the German form Gisela.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gizella
- Gizella FarkasHungarian table tennis player (1925-1996)
- Gizella Tetteh-AgbotuiGhanaian architect and politicianborn 1970
- Gizi BajorHungarian actress (1893–1951)
- Gizella HervayHungarian writer (1934–1982)
- Gizella Varga SinaiHungarian-born Iranian painterborn 1944
- Gizella TaryHungarian fencer (1884-1960)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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