Gisela (name)

Gisela is a female given name of Germanic origin. The name derives from the Old High German word gīsal, "pledge".

Variations on the name in other languages include:


 * Spanish: Gisela, Gicela, Gicelberta
 * Catalan: Gisela
 * German: Gisela
 * French: Gisèle, Giselle
 * Hungarian: Gizella
 * Italian: Gisella
 * Polish: Gizela
 * Portuguese: Gisela

The male forms is Gísli and Gisle, from Gísla saga (Gisli's saga) possibly known from place names such as Gislaved, a municipality in Sweden.

Noble Giselas

 * Gisela (daughter of Pepin the Short) (757 - 810-11), abbess
 * Gisela, daughter of Charlemagne (in or before 781 - after 808)
 * Gisela of Burgundy (c. 955 - 1007), daughter of Conrad, king of Burgundy, wife of Henry the Wrangler
 * Giselle of Bavaria (c. 1085 - 1065), her daughter (also Gisela of Hungary), wife of Stephen I of Hungary
 * Gisela of Swabia (c. 990-1043), Holy Roman Empress, wife of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
 * Gisela Agnes of Rath (1669-1740), Duchess of Anhalt-Köthen, Countess of Nienburg, regent of Anhalt-Köthen
 * Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856-1932), daughter to Emperor Franz Joseph I

Notable Giselas

 * Gisela (singer) (born 1979), Catalan singer
 * Gisela Arendt (1918–1969), German swimmer
 * Gisela Biedermann (born 1948), Liechtensteiner physician and politician
 * Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (born 1929), German sociologist, ethnologist, sexologist and writer
 * Gisela Boniel (1977–2017), Filipino politician
 * Gisela Casimiro (born 1984), Portuguese writer and activist
 * Gisela Depkat (born 1942), Canadian cellist and teacher
 * Gisela Dulko (born 1985), Argentine tennis player
 * Gisela Grothaus (born 1955), German slalom canoeist
 * Gísela López (born 1968), Bolivian journalist and politician
 * Gisela McDaniel (born 1995), Indigenous Chamorro visual artist
 * Gisela Richter (1882–1972), British-born archaeologist
 * Gisela Steineckert (born 1931), German writer
 * Gisela Storz, American microbiologist
 * Gisela Stuart (born 1955), German-born British politician
 * Gisela Valcárcel (born 1963), Peruvian TV host
 * Gisela Wuchinger (born 1950), German Austrian singer, also known as Gilla