Meaning and history
Isolde is the German form of Iseult, known from Gottfried von Strassburg’s 13th-century German poem Tristan. The name gained wider popularity in 1865 when Richard Wagner premiered his opera Tristan und Isolde and also gave the name to his first daughter.
In 2025, 20 babies were recorded with the name Isolde, ranking #5,917 among girls.