@bender@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha, nice. Yeah, I also only know older Giselas. Not sure why that name fell out of fashion this dramatically, though. Be that as it may, this hot greenfinch girl will help to repopularize it again!
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, almost everybody sells their soul to some form of devil. So did I. :-D
@bender@twtxt.net I misread that sentence and thought that your first crush was called Gisela, and was like “wait, he’s not that old”.
Turns out, Gisela is a much younger name than I thought:
https://namecensus.com/first-names/gisela-meaning-and-history/
A peak in the late 1970is and late 1990ies? What?
But then it turned out that, in Germany, the popularity dropped rapidly in the late 1950ies, which actually matches my expectations:
https://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/5203-gisela.htm
In other words, some other countries picked up the name Gisela after it had already faded away in Germany.
What a fun rabbit hole. 😅
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org love the name! That’s the name of one my childhood first crush’s mum. LOL. And now she is a lovely bird! :-)