Entry № 4708 · Germanic origin

Isolde Isolde — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-ZOL-deh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Ice ruler (Tristan's lover; Wagner's opera heroine)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old French)

A name that means "ice ruler (tristan's lover; wagner's opera heroine)".

Isolde is from the Old High German Iswalda — īs (ice) + walt (rule). One of the stories of European romance, with Arthurian connections — Tristan's roundtable knighthood appears in Malory.

Ice ruler (Tristan's lover; Wagner's opera heroine) — a Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Isolde
Transliteration
Isolde
Pronunciation
/ ɪˈsoʊl.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Isolde stands.

Isolde 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.

Isoldes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Isolde
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
1865

Names connected to Isolde.

The number behind Isolde.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Isolde reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.