Fun Facts About the Name Yisel
- 877 babies named Yisel: U.S. records list 877 babies given the name Yisel from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Yisel Mean?
Yisel is a feminine given name used mainly in Spanish-speaking countries. It is generally understood as a respelled form of Giselle or Gisela, the French and Spanish forms of a Germanic name built on the element gisil, which meant "pledge" or "hostage" in the medieval sense of a person handed over as a token of good faith. The same element appears in other Germanic names, such as Gisilberht, the ancestor of Gilbert, where it is joined to berht, "bright."
A second explanation links Yisel to Isabel, the Spanish form of Elizabeth, which comes from a Hebrew name meaning "God is my oath." The spelling Yisel has no separate documented etymology of its own, so the "pledge" sense is best described as the likely derivation rather than a settled one.
Yisel Name History & Origins
The parent name has a long record in Europe. Gisila served as a short form of two-element Germanic names beginning with gisil-, and it was borne by royal women of the early Middle Ages, among them Gisela, sister of Charlemagne, who became abbess of Chelles, and Gisela of Hungary (about 985 - 1065), wife of King Stephen I and later honored as a saint. Through French the name became Gisèle and Giselle; in Spanish and Portuguese it is usually Gisela.
Yisel belongs to a set of Hispanic spellings that render the initial consonant of such names with y- and simplify the vowel pattern, in the same way that Spanish writes Yolanda for the French Yolande. The French form Giselle was also fixed in wider memory by the 1841 ballet of that name, with music by Adolphe Adam - an artistic association that came many centuries after the name itself was in use. The respelled Hispanic forms, including Yisel, are found chiefly in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Hispanic communities in the United States.
How Popular is the Name Yisel?
Yisel has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2000. Its best rank was #2,372 in 2000.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,837 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #12,079 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #9,579 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2022 | #8,507 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2021 | #10,264 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2020 | #10,215 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2019 | #11,319 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #9,130 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2017 | #12,677 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2016 | #10,822 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #7,597 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2014 | #8,948 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2013 | #6,718 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2012 | #5,546 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2011 | #5,351 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2010 | #5,105 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2009 | #4,567 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2008 | #5,741 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2007 | #5,886 | 24 | 0.0012% |
| 2006 | #4,455 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 2005 | #4,263 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2004 | #3,687 | 40 | 0.0022% |
| 2003 | #3,528 | 41 | 0.0022% |
| 2002 | #2,815 | 54 | 0.0030% |
| 2001 | #3,548 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2000 | #2,372 | 66 | 0.0036% |
| 1999 | #2,989 | 45 | 0.0025% |
| 1998 | #3,114 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 1997 | #5,624 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1996 | #6,718 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1995 | #6,255 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1994 | #7,093 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1993 | #4,823 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 1992 | #10,457 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #8,580 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1990 | #15,213 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1989 | #9,666 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1986 | #7,742 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1983 | #10,263 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1981 | #8,123 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1980 | #8,168 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1979 | #6,183 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1978 | #4,929 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 1977 | #9,640 | 6 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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