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Iseult

Girls' name

Possibly she who is gazed upon

Iseult has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2016. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Iseult, 2016

1 in 734,000

Iseult over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iseult: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly she who is gazed upon

Germanic languages

What Iseult means

Iseult may mean “she who is gazed upon”, associated with Adsiltia.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Old French, the name of the queen who fell in love with Tristan in medieval romance Tristan and Iseult, perhaps from Celtic, of uncertain meaning, possibly Proto-Brythonic *Adsiltia (“she who is gazed upon”); compare Welsh syllu and Irish súil. Otherwise from Germanic, equivalent to Old High German is (“ice”) + hiltja (“battle”) (from Proto-West Germanic *hildi).

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Origin, language, and formation

Iseult is used in English and French. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Iseult comes through Proto-Brythonic *Adsiltia, Old High German is and Proto-West Germanic *hildi.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Iseult is pronounced /ɪˈsuːlt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Iseult between 2016 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2016; its best national rank was #17,258 in 2016.

How common is Iseult?

Iseult had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iseult sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iseult. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iseults were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iseult was born before 2016 — so the typical Iseult is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Iseult rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (5)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#17,258
2016

Spellings of Iseult

Iseult is not the most common spelling — Isela is, with 99.9% against Iseult's 0.08%.

  • Isela99.9%5,925
  • Iseult0.08%5

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Iseult around the world

Where Iseult ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    1965–2024
    #631
    in 2024
  • France
    1970–2025
    #5,735
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Iseult by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#17,258
2016
Peak year
2016
5 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Iseult

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Iseult

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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