Entry № 3690 · French origin

Gisele Gisele — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ zhi-ZEL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Pledge (Gisele Bündchen, supermodel)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "pledge (gisele bündchen, supermodel)".

Gisele is the French form of the Germanic gīsil (pledge, hostage). A top-500 US baby name since 2008.

Pledge (Gisele Bündchen, supermodel) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Gisèle
Transliteration
Gisèle
Pronunciation
/ ʒɪˈzɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gisele stands.

Gisele does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Giseles before her.

Real people
Gisele Bündchen
Brazilian supermodel.
born 1980
Gisèle Halimi
French-Tunisian feminist lawyer.
1927 – 2020
In fiction
Gisele Yashar
Fast and Furious.
2009

Names connected to Gisele.

The number behind Gisele.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gisele reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.