Entry № 4680 · Celtic origin

Iseult Iseult — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-SOOLT /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"Tristan and Iseult - medieval romance"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old French)

A name that means "tristan and iseult - medieval romance".

Iseult is from the Old French Iseut — adapted from the Welsh Esyllt (of fair aspect). Iseult is the Irish princess at the heart of Tristan and Iseult — one of the love legends of medieval Europe, predating and influencing the Arthurian Lancelot-Guinevere romance.

Of fair aspect (Welsh-Old French).

The name in its native script.

Iseut
Transliteration
Iseult
Pronunciation
/ iːˈsuːlt /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Iseult stands.

Iseult does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Iseults before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Iseult (medieval)
Tristan and Iseult.
c. 1170

Names connected to Iseult.

The number behind Iseult.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iseult reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.