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Isolde

#5,996 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly she who is gazed upon, through Iseult

Isolde has been given to 347 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #5,996 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Isolde, 2025

1 in 166,000

Isolde 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isolde: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly she who is gazed upon, through Iseult

Celtic languages and Germanic languages

What Isolde means

Isolde belongs to the name family reached through Isolde → Iseult. Its meaning is “she who is gazed upon”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from the German Isolde, German form of Iseult.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Isolde (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Isolde is used in English and German. Its origins include Celtic languages and Germanic languages.

Isolde comes through German Isolde.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iseult.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Isolde is pronounced /ɪˈsoʊld(ə)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 347 girls were recorded with the name Isolde between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2007; its best national rank was #5,433 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,612 in 2020 to #5,996 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,116 in 2015 to #5,996 in 2025.

How common is Isolde?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,996
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isolde 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 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isolde. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isoldes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isolde was born before 2015 — so the typical Isolde is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
347
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Choose a decade

2010s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (169).

Is Isolde 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
+1,747
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,616
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+120
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.9%
Peak was 2007 (26)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,433
2007

Spellings of Isolde

Isolde is not the most common spelling — Sole is, with 61.8% against Isolde's 38.2%.

  • Sole61.8%561
  • Isolde38.2%347

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.

Where Isolde is used

Across 1910–2025, Isolde was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,239,964 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Isolde has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Isolde around the world

Where Isolde 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
    1997–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1969–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    1943–2025
    #4,891
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021

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

Isolde by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,996
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,616
Best rank ever
#5,433
2007
Peak year
2007
26 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
347
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Isolde

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

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Sibling names for Isolde

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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