Entry № 4665 · Scottish Gaelic origin

Iseabail Iseabail — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ISH-ah-bel /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Meaning
"Devoted to God (Scottish Isabel)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "devoted to god (scottish isabel)".

Iseabail (pronounced "ish-ah-bel") is the Scottish Gaelic form of Isabel — from Hebrew Elisheba ("God is my oath"). Iseabail Ní Mheic Cailéin (15th c.) was the Scottish Gaelic poet, one of the few women whose poetry survives in the medieval Scottish bardic tradition.

Used widely in the Scottish Highlands.

Devoted to God. The Scottish Isabel.

The name in its native script.

Iseabail
Transliteration
Iseabail
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪʃ.ə.bɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iseabail stands.

Iseabail 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.

Iseabails before her.

Real people
Iseabail Ní Mheic Cailéin
Scottish Gaelic poet.
15th c.
In fiction
Iseabail
Common Scottish name.

Names connected to Iseabail.

The number behind Iseabail.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iseabail reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.