Yseult

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yseult is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France. Recorded meaning: Celtic origin, meaning ‘beautiful’; medieval name from the Tristan and Yseult legend.

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  • FRFrance
  • BEBelgium
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Celtic origin, meaning ‘beautiful’; medieval name from the Tristan and Yseult legend.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Yseult is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Medieval French form of pIsolde, still occasionally used as a given name in the English-speaking world.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In French, a female given name, variant of Iseult, equivalent to German Isolde

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Nom d’origine celtique, rendu célèbre par la légende de Tristan et Iseut.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Medieval French form of ISOLDE , still occasionally used as a given name in the English-speaking world.

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Yseult Le Danois, b. 1920Yseult Williams, b. 1968Yseult Gervy, b. 1979Yseult Héjja-Brichard, b. 1992Yseult, b. 1994

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Yseult mean, and where does it come from?
Celtic origin, meaning ‘beautiful’; medieval name from the Tristan and Yseult legend. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Yseult a male or female name?
Yseult is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Yseult?
In the etymology graph, Isolde, Isolda and Iseult are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Yseult have the most bearers?
Yseult is most frequently recorded in France.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yseult”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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