Gisela

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

German short form of names containing the name element GISL ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Gila	♀
Gisa	♀
Gisel	♀/♂
Gisela	♀
Gísela	♀
Gisele	♀
Giséle	♀
Gisèle	♀		French
Gisell	♀
Gisella	♀
Giselle	♀

Combinations

For combinations see GISL (name element)

Name Day

Sweden

4 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1729 ^[3]

Cognates

Norse: Gísla (see Gísli)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		1593	2652	0	0
Denmark[5]		247	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[6]		43	104	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	260	n.a	3
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Gisela.

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi