Entry № 3101 · Welsh origin

Esyllt Esyllt — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ESS-uhlt /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Welsh Iseult (Tristan and Iseult)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "welsh iseult (tristan and iseult)".

Esyllt is the Welsh form of Iseult (Isolde) — heroine of one of the great romantic tragedies of Western literature. The Irish princess who fell in tragic love with the Cornish knight Trystan after they accidentally drank a magic potion — central to the Welsh Triads (which predate the French versions). Generally interpreted as meaning "of fair regard."

Featured in the Welsh Triads and medieval Welsh romance.

Welsh Iseult. The tragic Irish princess of Tristan and Iseult.

The name in its native script.

Esyllt
Transliteration
Esyllt
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛs.əlt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Esyllt stands.

Esyllt does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Esyllts before her.

Real people
Esyllt Maelor
Welsh poet.
In fiction
Esyllt
Tristan and Iseult.

Names connected to Esyllt.

The number behind Esyllt.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Esyllt reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.