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