Gisela
German - Female
Form of Giselle. A pledge.
Form of Giselle. A pledge.
A pledge.
Hostage.
An Old German name derived from 'gisil', meaning pledge, and 'berhia', meaning bright.
An Old German name derived from words meaning 'god' and 'peace'.
Hard spear.
God's peace.
Peaceful God.
Little pearl.
Gray, gray-haired. Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio used the name for an exceptionally patient fictional wife - thus the expression 'patience of Griselda'.
Gray.
Gray battle maiden.
Gray, gray-haired.
Gray battle maiden.
From the gray forest.
From the gray forest.
From the gray forest.
Gray forest.
Variant of Griselda: From the Old German, meaning 'grey battle' or 'Christian battle'.
Endless patience.