Could DD have picked her own name? I need some opinions please!

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I have been agonising over names for a long time. There are lots I liked, but none I loved.

We are having a girl! (yay) At every scan, she pushes her footprint up and the doctor has printed us out several photos of her little white footprint, even at the very early scans. I had "Olwen" on our (very long) list but I only liked it, and wasn't 100% sure about it.

The name Olwen means "little white footprint".

Anyway, I was at a scan yesterday and up appeared this lovely little white footprint again, and the doctor stopped the screen and said "oh look at her beautiful little foot". I actually welled up a bit, and thought "her name is Olwen"

I just want to pick a lovely name for our little girl. Do you think its a nice name?

Sorry kisses out of habit!!

Bog- it's a wonderful story. I can still remember sitting in my primary school at about 9 years old and my teacher reading me the part about Olwen. I was absolutely mesmerised, I can remember the beautiful illustrations!

What a lovely story and I think the name is gorgeous.

What a beautiful story. Olwen must surely be her name!

Awww, lovely name and lovely story (both yours and the story of Olwen/the white flower footprints from the Mabinogion) - we dithered about dd's name until she was born - dh took one look at her and said she's 'X, look at her' I'd be holing out for Y all along - but he was quite right. She would have been all wrong as Y (a nice, rather pretty and fey girls name - the opposite of dd!!)

Congratulations, OP!

Beautiful story, beautiful name! You have to call her Olwen now, this is part of your families story

I'm not a fan, it's on a par with Blodwyn (although maybe Olwen fans love Blodwyn too).

Bookday, it's pronounced just as it looks ( well the w might come out a bit different in Wales , but not much ). Fabulous name and story to go with it. Of course it's the only name for her.

Yeah as its spelt. OL-wen.

Op my DS got his name after a baby scan. My husband left the scan mucking around and joking saying 'I have an heir', 'behold, my son'. When we looked at baby names we discovered a name that means behold, a son. That decided his name.

Love the name Olwen, but I also love the spelling Olwyn.

Reuben, Lovely?

Indeed Imperial

Lovely name :)

I know an Olwen (I'm not in Wales) it's a lovely name and a lovely story to go with it. Congratulations

I'm Welsh. I do like it, however I can't help thinking it's too close to Olwyn which means 'wheel'. I don't want to put a downer on it as Olwen is a proper name and really traditional. You may use the nn Olly which is nice too.

I think I'm the welsh name police though as I had a friend who was going to call her dd Arian (which a name book had said meant silver). In day to day Welsh it means 'money'.

I think it's lovely - it was my dgm's name and we will use it as a middle if this one is a girl.

The story is fantastic. We have a similar story for our girl's name and my dh won't entertain any other names at all! Xx

What a lovely name, and I love the story too (sob!) I think you should go with it! X

the Scottish Gaelic word for 'money' is also a word for 'silver'

Which makes sense, really. Since, you know, coins were mostly made out of silver...

french word for money is also silver, never realised it before!

Olwen is v breautiul and I'm sure she will be quite proud to know she played a role in the choice of her name.

Love Olwen. It's beautiful. And I do believe children have a hand in choosing their own names. We had a different name picked out for my daughter, but when she came out, my husband said: she looks like a "----" and I agreed with him, so that's what we called her.

Beautiful name and beautiful stories (both in real life and the myth)

It's perfect, she will love hearing that story when she grows up x