Favourite Welsh name?

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This isn't for a baby, but for a curiosity.

For me:

Boy - Emrys

Girl - Bronwyn

Aneurin & Bronwen

In answer to a PP - yes, Griffin is a proper name. In Welsh it's spelled Gruffyn and it's one of the nicknames from Gruffudd, the other two common ones being Gutyn and Guto.

Some of the old Welsh nicknames are fab. Bedo for Maredudd (Meredith), the origin of the surname Beddoes. Maredudd / Meredith is most definitely a boy's name, second element 'udd' means 'lord', same as first element in Idris

I wish I could have used Einion or Elidir for a boy, Heledd for a girl.

Seren and Howel

Cerys

Sioned, Eluned or Angharad
Enyr, Sion, or Ianto

patty

"n answer to a PP - yes, Griffin is a proper name. In Welsh it's spelled Gruffyn and it's one of the nicknames from Gruffudd, the other two common ones being Gutyn and Guto."

Thanks for responding; I actually asked if it was properly Welsh, not if it was a proper name... of course I know it's a proper name!

Your post is exactly what I was talking about. It comes from the Welsh but, has it been anglicised? Similar to Padraig and Patrick for example? That's what I was asking.

Boy - Alwyn
Girl - Angharad

Or Eluned, it's so pretty when pronounced properly.

Nareece

I wanted Aled for DS but dh wasn't keen. Rhian for a girl.

Esyllt for a girl.

Aneurin or Gethin for a boy. Or Iestyn or Taliesin. So many great names.

We have a Welsh surname so DH vetoed anything too Welsh for DCs sadly.

Gwenhwyfar, which is the original form of Guinevere, but obviously I know it's completely unusable. I wish that wasn't the case though!

*Rockaby" it's a genuine Welsh name, though seems to have been used more in eastern Wales as a nickname for Gruffudd, whereas Gutyn and Guto were more common further west. The spelling Griffin is Anglicised (as I say, it would be Gruffyn in Welsh), just as Griffith is the Anglicised spelling of Gruffudd.

Thanks patty!

Girls: Eira, Eirian, Seren, Bethan, Anwen

Boys: Rhodri, Ioan, Iestyn,

Eleri and Haf for a girl
Dylan, Iolo and Tudwr and Gerallt for a boy

Rhys & Cerys

I like Alaw for a girl too.

Emrys and Eirlys. Both vetoed :(

Angharad
Carys

Rhodri
Aneurin
Iestyn

My name keeps popping up in here

OP and rumbling - the names are Bronwen and Ceridwen. -wyn indicates a male name.
Ffyon??? btw Ffion is pronounced Fee-on not Fee-ohn.

One of my children has got one of your favourite names

Why is Gwenhwyfar unusable? Howel is spelt Hywel (difficult for non-Welsh speakers to pronounce, it's Huh-well Not How-elle.) Enyr - do you mean Ynyr or Emyr?

Rhianwen - a combination of Anwen and Rhiannon

Arianwen is pretty