Taliesin - Opinions

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We're having our fifth child in December and it a boy! Currently have one boy and three girls. Names are a contentious issue here and hotly debated but we both rather like Taliesin. DH is set on it and I do like it too, although my real love is for Dashiell but DH hates it :-( We're Welsh and live in Wales so it won't be totally unheard of but it is still unusual. Other children have equally unusual but not made up or obscure names so it fits there too.

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My friend has got a Taliesin, he's Tali for short. I love it!

I think it is lovely. I live in mid Wales and know several Taliesins, most are known as Tali.

Taliesin is the name of a semi-mythical poet from the very early period of the Welsh language. There's even a 'Book of Taliesin', one of the most famous medieval Welsh manuscripts.

It means something like "shining brow", originally.

It's a bit popular with people of a new-agey, neo-Druidical persuasion, so if you live outside Wales, one or two people might think you tend that way. You could tell them you like the sound, and the idea of your son being named after a legendary poet.

Aneirin was another poet from the same era - as in Aneurin Bevan and Aneurin Barnard (the version with a 'u' is a modern mispelling, strictly speaking, but it's the same name).

Tal is the usual shortened form.

Love it and Tal as a nickname (Welsh speaker living in South Wales). I went to Swansea university too but already knew the name from school. One of my favourite Welsh names for a boy, along with Aneurin, Ianto and Sianco (my Welsh cob's name).

I love it. I know a 12 year old taliesin who lives in south east England. His name has caused no problems for him. He is mainly called tali

I love it! I love Welsh names, Aneurin and Macsen are great too.

I'm not at all Welsh, and don't live in Wales so it would have been rather odd to have called my boys Welsh names.

Taliesin is one of my all time favourite names that I couldn't use.

I like it, Tal is great as the short form too.

I have one!

Love Taliesin. But I'm from mid Wales too ....

I love it, dh is welsh bit I'm not, we live in London so I don't feel like I can use it without sounding a bit pretentious.