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Welsh girl names - Help

179 replies

Cookalia · 14/07/2020 17:17

We are really struggling with girl names.
It needs to be Welsh but work in Welsh speaking Wales and English speaking Wales and can't have a LL in it.

We have tended to like 'dated' names over current popular ones.

Megan, Bethan, Rhian, Carys etc are all nice but too run of mill.
Siân and Sioned also can't be used and nothing that begins with a T

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Gwenhwyfar · 15/07/2020 13:30

@tywysoges

There’s a boy Deryn in DD’s class, is it unisex?
I suppose so. It's quite new (at least to me) as a name and I wouldn't use it myself because it literally makes me think of a bird and not a baby.
Gwenhwyfar · 15/07/2020 13:28

"Maybe Haf as a middle name"

Yes, if she's born in the summer.

Gwenhwyfar · 15/07/2020 13:27

"Please pop over and tell my eighty-year-old, Welsh-speaking Great Aunt Enyd, Mike. I'm sure she'll be glad to be corrected."

The fact that your great aunt uses an alternative spelling doesn't mean there isn't a conventionally correct way of spelling a name.

Someone could call themselves Jon in English, but the name is still conventionally spelt John (when not short for Jonathan).

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 15/07/2020 13:27

I’m not sure what you’d like me to do with that information, Mike. I’d pass it on to Enyd’s parents but I believe they have been dead for forty years.

MikeUniformMike · 15/07/2020 13:18

@ZoyaTheDestroyer, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_(given_name)

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 15/07/2020 13:00

Enyd is spelt Enid

Please pop over and tell my eighty-year-old, Welsh-speaking Great Aunt Enyd, Mike. I'm sure she'll be glad to be corrected.

MikeUniformMike · 15/07/2020 12:54

Merryn, Bettrys and Marteg aren't welsh girl's names. Marteg is a river.
Enyd is spelt Enid.

Meredyth is spelt Meredith, and as I previously posted is the anglicised version of a boy's name.

Blodwyn is spelt Blodwen. Names that end in -wyn are boys' names. Blodwyn isn't a boy's name.

Iona is welsh. Usually given to girls born in January.

I liked the suggestions of Llinos and Gwenllian when the OP states
"It needs to be Welsh but work in Welsh speaking Wales and English speaking Wales and can't have a LL in it."

orangejuicer · 15/07/2020 07:57

Einir is nice too.

HollsLolls · 15/07/2020 00:23

Eluned is also nice

HollsLolls · 15/07/2020 00:20

Lynwen, Elin, Heddwen

Maybe Haf as a middle name

AncientRainbowABC · 15/07/2020 00:00

Bettrys
Enfys
Eswen
Glesni
Tegwen

I do like Alys too but, to me, it’s less of a Welsh name as such and more of a Welsh-style spelling. Some of the others have more to them somehow.

Natsel84 · 14/07/2020 23:56

Rhianwen

ttigerlilly · 14/07/2020 23:56

Lowri
Efa
Eira

Natsel84 · 14/07/2020 23:56

Eirianwen

Natsel84 · 14/07/2020 23:55

Lowri

Natsel84 · 14/07/2020 23:55

Ffion

BlueHawaii · 14/07/2020 23:47

I know a Merryn. I love it!

RaspberryBubblegum · 14/07/2020 23:44

Eilonwy

falgelednl · 14/07/2020 23:41

Heulwen
Delwyn
Aneira
Ceridwen
Eleri
Enfys

Cherry321 · 14/07/2020 23:33

Meinir is lovely.

MushyPeasAreTheDevilsFood · 14/07/2020 23:27

I love olwen.

saturdaynightgin · 14/07/2020 23:17

I love Tesni

Heh1991 · 14/07/2020 23:09

Rhiannon
Arwen
Eleri

Fulmar · 14/07/2020 22:45

Phyllis Doris?

Oh, no good, LL, otherwise...

donkeyoatey · 14/07/2020 22:16

Ceinwen