Griselda is a feminine given name

Given name

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 used in the English

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, Italian

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, Spanish

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, and Germanic languages. According to the 1990 United States Census, the name was 1066th in popularity among females in the United States.

Most experts agree that the name came from the Ancient Germanic phrase "gris hild", meaning "dark battle". However, a few believe that the name came from the ancient Germanic word "gries", meaning "gravel" or "stone".

The name can also be spelled "Griselde", "Grisselda", "Grieselda", "Grizelda" and "Gricelda". Other forms include "Grisel", "Grizel", "Grissel", "Grizzel", "Grisell", "Grizell", "Grissell", "Grizzell", "Grisleys" and "Criselda".

A person with this name is often referred to as "Zelda" or "Selda".

People named Griselda include:

• Griselda Álvarez
  Griselda Álvarez
  Griselda Álvarez was the first female governor in Mexico. Álvarez was Governor of the state of Colima from 1979-1985. -Biography:...
  
   (1913–2009), first female governor in Mexico
• Griselda Blanco
  Griselda Blanco
  Griselda Blanco is a former drug lord for the Medellín Cartel, and was a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1943), a former drug lord for the Medellín Cartel
• Griselda Gambaro
  Griselda Gambaro
  Griselda Gambaro is an Argentine writer, whose novels, plays, short stories, story tales, essays and novels for teenagers often concern the political violence in her home country that would develop into the Dirty War. One recurring theme is the desaparecidos and the attempts to recover their...
  
   (born 1928), Argentine writer
• Griselda González
  Griselda González
  Griselda María de los Ángeles González Santillo is a retired female long-distance runner from Argentina. She twice won the Buenos Aires Marathon in her native country...
  
   (born 1965), Argentine former long-distance runner
• Griselda Pollock
  Griselda Pollock
  Griselda Pollock is a prominent art historian and cultural analyst, and a world-renowned scholar of international, post-colonial feminist studies in the visual arts. She is best known for her theoretical and methodological innovation, combined with deeply engaged readings of historical and...
  
   (born 1949), art historian, cultural analyst and scholar
• Griselda Tessio
  Griselda Tessio
  Griselda Rosa de las Mercedes Tessio is the Vice-Governor of the Argentine province of Santa Fe since 11 December 2007...
  
  (born 1947), vice-governor of the Argentine province of Santa Fe