Help me find a Welsh girls name

[moogdroog]

Hi all,
Baby due in 3 weeks time (girl, or so the sonographer said) and I'm still umming and ahhing over names. Get terrified with the huge responsibility of it all and end up dithering.
I am Welsh, DH is English, we live in Wales and in the not too distant future hope to move to a more Welsh (speaking) part of Wales. DS is Ioan and would like a Welsh girls name too. Further complicated by our surname being an adjective, with a strong 'Sh' at the start.

DH's current favourites, which I am also considering are:
Nia - too like Mia? Too short? Seems to need a middle name sorted to consider it properly
Rhiannon - love the nickname 'Non', but is it too boring?

Names we liked that have been discounted so far:
Menna - love this but makes a statement with our surname (Men are...)
Seren - don't like it with our surname, and seems to be crazily popular at the moment
Llinos - too Welsh (DH)
Gwen/Gwennie/Gwennon - just went off it (and my nan doesn't like it!)
Eira / Eirwen - meaning snow/white snow - due May, wrong time of year?

Any suggestions? I'm driving myself mad looking through lists

I like Cerys.

Mali
Hari
Ariana
Eleri
Celyn
Mari
Marni
Meghan
Llynos

I love Bethan! There is a Bethan working on Irish telly and I always wanted her name :)

Be careful of Welsh baby name sites- I am a Welsh speaker and I swear somebody just picked them out of the dictionary... I saw an American one with the Welsh word for torture (Artaith) on there- Defo not a name!

You should call her Manon. That is the nicest name on earth ;)

A lovely and underused Welsh name is Mai- May in Welsh. Stick that with a nature name in the middle- Mai Haf, maybe (May Summer), Mai Awel (May Breeze) or Mai Awen (May Muse).
Catrin is lovely.
Gwenllian.
I loved going through Welsh flower books looking for names when I was pg. :)

I have a Welsh friend called HAFWEN which I think is a beautiful, soft but strong name.

Gwenno
Haf
Siwan
Fflur
Martha

I'm getting broody now, stop it!

my name is Bethan , glad you like it! ( Its pretty common amongst people the same age as me though and it can cause problems when we all share a common surname too.......................)

I love Ffion.

I had actually wished I was Welsh when DD was born just to use it.

We live in a Welsh speaking part of Wales. My DD is called Carys Angharad, if the boys had been girls they would have been Manon Fflur and Ffion Medi.

Gwenan
Megan
Sian
Lowri
Lleucu
Ffion
Cerys
Catrin
Nia
Arwen
Elan
Elen
Elain
Betsan
Seren
Tirion
Haf
Hafwen
Cadi
Bethan
Sara
Mared
Angharad
Rhian
Bronwen
Gwyneth
Delyth (my name!)
Meinir
Gwenno
Arwen
Sioned
Eluned
Rhiannon
Rhianwen
Eleri
Anwen

I really like Sian, Bethan, Manon and Tirion. My sister was called Ceridwen, but always preferred to be known as Ceri.

Ceridwen is a fantastic name :)

Ffion is lovely

Oooh really like Tirion! DH is worried it's too unusual.
Love Manon, but it's been vetoed...
Ffion is nice, but always reminds me of William Hague's wife..

I love your username moogdroog. Reminds me of heady times pre-dc

We too are struggling with a girls name. Would really like a Welsh one. I'm English but dh is Welsh and we've recently moved back to Wales.

We were almost set on Arwen, but MIL pointed out that anything beginning with A does not work with out surname! So ruled out!

Also need to consider my useless English family who you struggle to pronounce anything too difficult!

Fab suggestions on here though, going to run them past my dh later!

Tyrion is excellent, as is Taryn

Enfys, Gwawr, Lowri, Mabli, Nest, Gwenno?

My DD is called Tirion (which means "gentle"). I also love Angharad.

I love Nia - does it really matter that it's short? Its also very easy for English speakers to pronounce of course. Efa is also pretty IMO (though also short).

Catrin is a good name, but certainly round here it is awfully popular (I know several sets of Catrin/Rhys siblings).

Mali is Welsh for Mollie and I think it's lovely.

I'm Welsh and DH English, had our second DC 10 weeks ago, DS so didnt use our girls names, which were Anwen or Ariana (my DD's name is on your not to use list). I live in England and in laws are English so it was important to find something they can pronounce, may be important in your case too?

Angharad,
Seren,
Megan,
Morgana,
Lowri.

Love Dylan for a girl too

Efa
Elin (am biased there!)
Beca

Elin
Lowri
Bethan
Megan
Mair
Manon
Eleri
Moli

Cadi?