Female name
Iseult
318 births (Ireland, 1964–2025), peaking in 2015. Expression number: 5.
Origin
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).From Wiktionary, entry “Iseult”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In Ireland
Peak in 2015: 15 births. 318 births from 1964 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. It is still given: 30 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Central Statistics Office, Irish Babies' Names, CC BY 4.0.
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
5
freedom, change, movement
9 + 1 + 5 + 3 + 3 + 2 = 23 → 5
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
8
power, achievement, your relationship with money
9 + 5 + 3 = 17 → 8
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
6
responsibility, harmony, commitment to others
1 + 3 + 2 = 6
- Digits missing from the name
- 4, 6, 7, 8
- Most frequent digit
- 3 · expression, creativity, sociability
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.