Gisela (first name)
Gisela is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the Old High German word gisal and means “hostage; Guarantor; Pledge ".
distribution
In the late 19th century, Gisela was a moderately popular female given name in Germany. Its popularity rose from the mid-1910s. From the mid-twenties to the beginning of the fifties, the name was one of the ten most common of the respective year. With the beginning of the sixties its popularity decreased sharply, since the seventies hardly any children are called Gisela.
name day
May 7 ; Gisela of Bavaria , Queen of Hungary
variants
- German : Gisela, Giesela
- French : Gisèle , Giselle
- Italian : Gisella
- Spanish : Gisela
- Scandinavian: Silke
- Hungarian: Gizella
Well-known namesake
- Rulers
- Gisela of Burgundy (950 / 960-1007), Duchess of Bavaria, mother of Emperor Heinrich II.
- Gisela von Bayern (* around 985–1060), Queen of Hungary, married to King Stephen of Hungary
- Gisela von Schwaben (989 or 990–1043), German queen and Roman empress
- Gisela von Backnang (* before 1027, † before 1050), Swabian nobleman
- Gisela von Spiegelberg (* around 1170; † after December 7, 1221), abbess of the Fraumünster Zurich
- Gisela von Schlüsselberg († 1308), the first abbess of the Schluesselau monastery
- Gisela Agnes von Rath (1669–1740), Princess of Anhalt-Köthen
- Gisela Louise Marie of Austria (1856–1932), daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph and Elisabeth of Austria
- First name
- Gisela von Arnim (1827-1889), German writer
- Gisela Bär (1920–1991), German sculptor
- Gisela Bock (* 1941), German politician
- Gisela Bock (* 1942), German historian
- Gisela von Collande (1915–1960), German actress and radio play speaker
- Gisela Deege (1928–1997), German ballet dancer
- Gisela Eichardt (* 1964), German sculptor
- Gisela Elsner (1937–1992), German writer
- Gisela Fischdick (* 1955), German chess grandmaster
- Gisela Fritsch (1936–2013), German actor and voice actress
- Gisela Getty (* 1949), German photographer, director, designer and writer
- Gisela Hoeter (1922-2010), German actress
- Gisela Jacobius (1923–2011), survivor of the Holocaust and committed contemporary witness
- Gisela Kraft (1936–2010), German writer and literary translator from Turkish
- Gisela Lindemann (1938–1989), German literary critic, literary scholar and radio editor
- Gisela Mahlmann (* 1945), German television journalist
- Gisela Marx (* 1942), German journalist
- Gisela May (1924-2016), German actress
- Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet (* 1956), German political scientist
- Gisela Niemeyer (1923–2012), German lawyer, judge at the Federal Fiscal Court and the Federal Constitutional Court
- Gisela Oechelhaeuser (* 1944), German cabaret artist
- Gisela von Poellnitz (1911–1939), German journalist and resistance fighter
- Gisela Pulido (* 1994), Spanish kitesurfer
- Gisela Reissmann (1920–2009), German voice actress and actress
- Gisela Schlüter (1914–1995), German cabaret artist and actress
- Gisela Schneeberger (* 1948), German cabaret artist and actress
- Schwabinger Gisela (1929–2014), German chanson singer and innkeeper
- Gisela Stein (1934–2009), German actress
- Gisela Steinhauer (* 1960), German presenter
- Gisela Stuart (* 1955), British politician
- Gisela Trowe (1922–2010), German actress and voice actress
- Gisela Uhlen (1919–2007), German actress
- Gisela Vetter-Liebenow (* 1959), German art historian and curator
- Gisela Wessel (* 1926), German actress
- Gisela Widmer (* 1958), Swiss author, columnist and radio operator
- Gisela Zoch-Westphal (* 1930), German actress and reciter
See also
- Gisela (disambiguation)