Welsh girls names that work in England

Gwen
Awen
Sian
Elan
Nia
Ffion
Nanw
Erin
Arwen
Lili
Megan
Magi

Sorry, zombie ish thread revival. Apologies 🤦

I know a little girl called Deryn.

Anwen is one of my favourites. So is Ffion. Dh won't entertain Welsh names.

Alys in N Wales is pronounced Alice. The Ailish pronunciation is not Welsh. It would be written Eilish or possibly Eilis, which is not a welsh name.

I know three Alys es.
2 pronounce their name as Alice (1 from W Wales, 1from Yorkshire).
1 as Ai-lish (age is from N Wales)

I don’t know if where they come from has any bearing on how they pronounce their names.

Someone upthread said that Alys was pronounced Ay-liss.
Megan will be like Meghan Markle - meggun
Bethan will be Beth-un
Catrin will be Catryn.

None of them are too bad.
Meg and Beth would be absolutely fine.

Lol! I have only just seen this thread, but I came on to say Alys, Catrin, Megan and Bethan.

tabbie - that's not the correct Welsh pronunciation of either of them.
Eiry is nearer Eh-ree and Rhian doesn't have an r in it. RH is a letter and a sound in it's own right.

Meredydd is a boy's name, pronounced Merr-ED-ith (ith like in with or wither).
It was anglicised as Meredith as a surname, and is now used for girls. Meredydd is still a boy's name.

Gwenneth is awful. It is Gwyneth. Gwenith, Gwennol and Gwylan are sometimes used as girl's names. Gwenno is nice and quite popular.

Meirion is a boy's name - very dated. It's nearer Mayrr-yon but you might hear Merrion or My-ryon.

Siwan is very pretty but there are two welsh pronunciations - SI-wann and SHEWann. It is Welsh for Joan.

Begw is pronounced BEG-ou . I think it's short for Margaret but I might me wrong. There is also Nanw (NAN-ou), In the past girls named Something Ann were sometimes known as Nan, so it was a longer form of Nan.

My daughter is called Rhian and we pronounce it Ree-un.

Hair possibly, but i thought it sounded more like Meredith. They called him Huw in the end!

@ThighsRelief was it Merion? My-REE-un

Bethan, Mali, Lowri, Gwen, Gwenneth, Mair, Eira.....

Mine is Dwynwen. After Santes Dwynwen.

I heard a Welsh couple saying they were going to name their boy something like Meredith. I think it was MehREDydd (kind of).

Love Lowri and Siwan.

MUM I've seen you say you think Begw is sweet before - all i can work out though is Begoo?

I'm English and have a Meredith- people are always commenting on how much they like it and how unusual it is.

Mike - Eiry is pronounced Eye-ree and Rhian as Ree-ann (a bit like Rhiannon but with out the non).

I thought you might. Ffion is lovely. Pretty meaning - foxglove. Pretty sound and looks nice written. Probably not too complicated once people know how to spell and say it. Might get Fee On.
I wish I didn't feel so strongly about my language but so many names have been ruined for me. Don't get me started on place names Abba-sock and Bah-ler, Banger, Care-wiss...

I vote for Ffion and Catrin.

@MikeUniformMike - bloody autocorrect - I meant to type Ffion not Fiona.

If Neveah is a name, why not use Nefoedd as a name or Ddeofen? You could have Wen as a mn.

Please do not call a child Bronwyn. It is spelt Bronwen.
Fiona isn't welsh. You might see Ffiona though or Eifiona- Ffion or Eifion (boy's name) with an a on the end.

North welsh here as well , dd's bought up in England.

Bethan
Elin
Cerys

Never had a problem as such, but Bethan is assumed to be Bethany. I thought elin was the easiest but it was constantly spelled Ellen. Cerys was pronounced Cerise by a HV!

Also on our list was Bronwyn,

But that aside, I'm now a rainbow leader in north wales

In a group of 18 I have three Serens and another on the waiting list so it is super popular, Mabli is also lovely (have two of them)

Other names around that I like:
Lowri
Manon
Fiona
Llinos (difficult for English tongues though)
Nia
Alys
Haf (summer)

You could also try just names that work in wales that are neutral not english or welsh. Such traditional names such as hannah , anna

tabbie, how do you say Eiry and Rhian?

My SIL is Welsh. I love the name Arwen. My nieces are called Rhiannon and Carys.

I know a pair of Welsh twins called Eiry and Rhian, no one has a problem pronouncing their names and I think they go nicely together.

Megan
Anwen
Gwen
Bethan
Alys
Sara
Seren
Cari
Mari
Beti
Lili
Nel
Ela
Cadi
Elen
Lowri
Lora
Carys
Wenna
Menna
Gwenno
Gwennan
Nansi
Mali
Mabli
Alaw
Awel
Lois (probably have to correct low-iss pronunciation a few times)
Mai
Elena

I have a Bronwen and a Meredith living in england. Bronwen is often said 'bron-wun' rather than 'bron-wen' and Meredith is 'Meh-ruh-dith' rather than 'M'red-eth' but they are quite subtle differences rather than outright incorrect pronunciation.