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Baby name
Gisele
Girl
Origin of the name
Gisele comes from a Germanic word that gave the German Geisel, “hostage, pledge.” The ballet Giselle made it famous.
Classic name
5,391births since 1880
2000sgeneration
No. 1088rank at its peak, in 2009
Where babies named Gisele are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Gisele is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Gisele is most common in California (2.6 times), New York (1.9) and Texas (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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