Ùisdean, sometimes also spelt Uisdean, is a Scottish Gaelic masculine given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

. It is a borrowing of the Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

 personal name

Personal name

A personal name is the proper name identifying an individual person, and today usually comprises a given name bestowed at birth or at a young age plus a surname. It is nearly universal for a human to have a name; except in rare cases, for example feral children growing up in isolation, or infants...

 Eysteinn, which is composed of the elements ey, ei, meaning "always", "forever"; and the element steinn, meaning "stone". The Scottish Gaelic name has been Anglicised as Hugh

Hugh (given name)

- Origins :Hugh is a masculine given name.It comes from the subject case of the French name : Hugues, which is itself a refection from the Occitan. Regular French spelling is Hue . It is of Germanic origin Hugo, used as a common spelling across Europe...

(note that Hugh is also used as an Anglicised form of the unrelated Scottish Gaelic name Aodh). A Scottish Gaelic variant of Ùisdean is Hùisdean.

People with the given names: Uisdean, Ùisdean, and Hùisdean

• Hugh of Sleat
  Hugh of Sleat
  Hugh of Sleat was an illegitimate son of Alexander MacDonald, 10th Earl of Ross and Lord of the Isles. Hugh was known as Ùisdean in Gaelic. Hugh was a member of the Highland and Island Clan Donald...
  
  , founder of Clan Macdonald of Sleat, which is also known as Clann Ùisdein