Isolde

[Fattycowagain]

Yes or no?

Beautiful and I'm adding it to my list as a serious contender!!

Love it. Really don't like Iseult!

I have baby name regret about not calling DD2 this 3 years ago. I only recently discovered the name though! I love it.

Instantly makes me think of the Wagner opera. In the very funny Rumpole of the Bailey books, Rumpole's rather pretentious colleague called his twins Tristan and Isolde (after the opera), so it always has a slight ring of that about it for me.

I'm sorry I don't know how to pronounce it?

Ah just looked it up - I think I prefer Isolda but both names lovely

Really like it.

Thanks for all the replies.

I'd be tempted to reply "you sold a what?" Every time I heard it.

This one isn't unusual in a good way for me.

nice...also really like 'Isotta' the Italian version

passportissues, it is pronounced here as ee-sold-uh, not i-sold.

I know of one. You'll get people pronouncing it many different ways if you spell it Isolde. Some pronounce the 'e' some don't, some stress different parts of the name. If you spell it Isolda you eliminate any doubt (that's if you want the 'a' sound on the end).
It's an English/Frech name from the original French 'Iseult', which itself is a lovely name.
If your taking it from the German Language Opera it would be ponounced 'Isolda'.

If we would spell it Isolda, people would pronounce the a rather obviously over here, so we prefer the e ending.

people would pronounce the a rather obviously over here

May I ask where you live?
Because to me personally Isolde and Isolda are quite different (my first language is German).

ee-soll-duh. (Isolda)
ee-soll-de (the de a bit like the e in egg...not really, But it's closer to the "egg e" than anything else, I think).

Whereas Isold... Idk, Wouldn't Ysolt be more obvious for the pronounciation you seem to want? I may be wrong, probably depends on where you live...

Clary, I think our pronunciation is the same, as we are in the Netherlands.

I thought it was pronounced I-sold-uh.

Well at least you now know you and said child will need to do some explaining of pronunciation of the name to many English speakers.

fatty

Oh, ok. :)

I personally prefer Isolda. It's one of our top4 girl's names (it's currently number 3).

But I think Isolde (also pronounced Ee-sold) is also really pretty.

Although I do wonder, is Ee-sold the English pronunciation or is it just the one you prefer?

The Dutch is ee-sol-duh. Isolda would be ee-sol-dah (as in Sarah, with a very pronounced ah bit), which I don't like.

Yseult isn't an option, I assume?

Well, Isolde (pronounced Isold) is also really nice :)

Hate it sorry. It sounds like a soldering iron to me.

Isolde isn't pronounced I sold although everyone does

Very pretty