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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.