Giselle’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Giselle
Giselle's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Giselle's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Giselle: meaning and origin
Giselle comes from the Old German element gisal, “hostage, pledge”, says Behind the Name. It may first have described a child given as a pledge to a foreign court. A sister and a daughter of Charlemagne bore it, and so did a daughter of the French king Charles III who married the Norman leader Rollo in the 10th century. Adolphe Adam’s ballet Giselle (1841) made it known in English.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Gisele and Gisselle as variant spellings, and Gisela and Gisa in German. Gigi and Elle are playful short forms in English.
Famous people named Giselle
Giselle is the princess-to-be at the heart of Disney’s Enchanted (2007), played by Amy Adams. Wikipedia says she is exiled from the animated kingdom of Andalasia into live-action New York City, where she falls in love with a divorce lawyer. The director described her as “about 80% Snow White”, with traits from Cinderella and Aurora and spunk borrowed from Ariel.
Is Giselle a popular name?
Giselle is a 2000s name. US Social Security data has it at 176th in the 2000s, when more than 19,700 American girls were named Giselle. Behind the Name says it ranked 382nd in the US in 2025 and 185th in Mexico in 2021.
Giselle trivia
Giselle is one of ballet’s great roles. Wikipedia says Giselle, or The Wilis premiered in Paris on June 28, 1841, with the Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi in the title role. It tells of a peasant girl who falls for a disguised nobleman, Albrecht, and dies of heartbreak when his identity is revealed, then rises among the ghostly Wilis. It quickly spread across Europe, Russia and the United States.
Gift ideas that suit a Giselle
- For a ballet student. A dance journal for classes and recitals.
- For a Disney fan. A notebook for fairy tales and favorite songs.
- For a trip to Paris. A travel journal for the opera and the ballet.
- For Christmas. A holiday journal for a night at The Nutcracker.
How Giselle can use it
Any Giselle, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Giselle can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Giselle’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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