Griselda
#3,296 for girls in 2025, 47 births · Last seen for boys in 1991 at #8,236
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 271 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,124since 1906
Griselda over time
Rank among girls' names. Griselda has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,296 | 47 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,575 | 43 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,399 | 45 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,614 | 42 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,060 | 54 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,906 | 59 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,102 | 96 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,206 | 90 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,015 | 101 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,846 | 110 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,668 | 119 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,667 | 116 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,284 | 162 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,275 | 154 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,499 | 125 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,266 | 154 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,099 | 181 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,118 | 172 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,058 | 180 | — | |
| 1996 | #998 | 188 | — | |
| 1995 | #822 | 239 | — | |
| 1994 | #844 | 236 | — | |
| 1993 | #697 | 307 | — | |
| 1992 | #835 | 239 | — | |
| 1991 | #763 | 270 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #728 | 287 | — | |
| 1989 | #755 | 260 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #868 | 203 | — | |
| 1987 | #878 | 193 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #780 | 217 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #753 | 229 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #713 | 232 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #815 | 189 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #835 | 187 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #652 | 271 | — | |
| 1980 | #690 | 250 | — | |
| 1979 | #679 | 253 | — | |
| 1978 | #750 | 206 | — | |
| 1977 | #802 | 187 | — | |
| 1976 | #747 | 194 | — | |
| 1975 | #804 | 171 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #807 | 167 | — | |
| 1973 | #734 | 191 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #919 | 134 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,148 | 101 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,168 | 99 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,054 | 108 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,223 | 80 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,428 | 60 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,488 | 55 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,635 | 47 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,593 | 51 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,683 | 46 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,073 | 32 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,887 | 36 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,985 | 32 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,820 | 36 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,416 | 22 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,826 | 17 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,095 | 14 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,450 | 20 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,516 | 18 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,411 | 19 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,577 | 16 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,781 | 14 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,726 | 14 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,701 | 14 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 | — | |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 | — | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
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| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
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| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
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| 1906 | #1,951 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Griselda! It came in at #1,951, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1906–1922, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Griselda is popular in 1975
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#348 · 1 in 1,897
- Arizona#356 · 1 in 1,895
- Texas#366 · 1 in 2,036
- Illinois#393 · 1 in 2,581
Best ever in a state: #224 in Nevada, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #348 | 73 | 1 in 1,897 |
| Arizona | #356 | 8 | 1 in 1,895 |
| Texas | #366 | 47 | 1 in 2,036 |
| Illinois | #393 | 27 | 1 in 2,581 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Griselda
- 279 spots since 2024 (#3,575 → #3,296)
- 103 spots since 2020 (#3,399 → #3,296)
- 237 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #3,296)
- Biggest jump: 229 spots in 1972 (#1,148 → #919)
- Biggest drop: 183 spots in 1982 (#652 → #835)
- Debuted 1906
- Peaked 1981 at #652 (271 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1972–1996
- Highest: 1 in 5,893 girls born in 1993 were named Griselda (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,197 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #652 in 1981, was only 1 in 6,155 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.2% of all girls named Griselda (2,299) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,951 (1906) | #1,951 |
| 1910s | 5 | #3,187 (1913) | #3,187 |
| 1920s | 23 | #4,286 (1927) | #4,455 |
| 1930s | 41 | #2,689 (1936) | #3,682 |
| 1940s | 77 | #2,701 (1948) | #3,641 |
| 1950s | 208 | #1,820 (1958) | #2,488 |
| 1960s | 550 | #1,054 (1969) | #1,602 |
| 1970s | 1,703 | #679 (1979) | #856 |
| 1980s | 2,231 | #652 (1981) | #774 |
| 1990s | 2,299 | #697 (1993) | #896 |
| 2000s | 1,227 | #1,266 (2000) | #1,683 |
| 2010s | 489 | #2,906 (2010) | #3,301 |
| 2020s | 266 | #3,181 (2023) | #3,500 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Griselda in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 8,526 of them was named Griselda, which outranked 92.4% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 312,271 of them was named Griselda, which outranked 13.8% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 873 names at #5,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.