Favourite Welsh name?

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

For me:

Boy - Emrys

Girl - Bronwyn

Meredith/Meredydd/Maredudd is a boy's name and is pronounced Mer-ED-ith (th as in 'the' not 'thin').

I generally don't like non-Welsh speakers using Welsh names, although easy to pronounce ones like Aled, Glyn or Bryn are reasonably Ok. Although I really like the names Jiaxin and Roisin, my dds have easy to pronounce English names.

Rhianwen isn't a combination of Rhiannon and Anwen, it's Rhian with the suffix wen. I suppose Anon could be a combination of Anwen and Non.

Ok I was wrong, not a literal combination but a name that sounds like both Rhiannon and Anwen if the OP was looking for suggestions.

It's pretty. I don't like Anwen at all but I like Rhian and Rhiannon. I also like Non (rhymes with Don). I also like Dona (a Welsh saint, and a Daphne du Maurier name) but as it's pronounced Donna, it was ruled it out.

Boy: Evan

Girl - Merryn

Aneurin

Angharad

Love Rhodri. There's an estate agent on homes under the hammer with this name- and every time he's on I think- that's the name for my next child! Love it.

Girl - Eleri or Medi, boy - Macsen (Max) or Ieaun.

girls- Cerys, Elin, Haf, Celyn, Cadi, Eirys, Awel.
boys- Ioan, Macsen, Taran, Cai, Sion.

Merryn is Cornish

Celyn (DD's name), Cadi, Angharad, Lowri, Llinos, Ffion

Bryn, Idris, Tegid, Owain, Ieuan, Rhys, Macsen

Slight tangent but can someone teach me how to pronounce Angarhad as I work with someone with that name (not closely) but don't know how it's pronounced....

Ilove, it would be
Ang (like Hang without the H)
Har (this doesn't rhyme with car but more like Hard without the H)
Rad (like Dad)

Thanks ok!

I hate pronouncing people's names incorrectly!

Actually that Har explanation doesn't work too well. It kind of has a Arrrr inflection like a Pirate would do (but not too much). I'm not explaining it very well!

More like the Ha sound if you were saying Ha ha ha!

downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/wales/livinginwales/angharad.mp3

Ang (no hard g)
Har (like Harry without the y)
Ad (like in advert)

Iestyn or Geraint

Angharad or Tesni

Marlais, Macsen, Osian, Owain, Ilan, Aneurin and Iago for boys

Cerys, Alys, Aneira, Nel, Alaw, Olwen and Awel for girls

Angharad
Ioan

My DC's names have come up a few times!

I also like Rhodri and Lowri, and Griffydd and Cerys.

Seren and Ioan

I love Arwen for a girl.

I'm loving this thread! I always wanted to give my children Welsh names, but in reality, DP is English, we live in England now, and we haven't had children!

I'm living my life through this thread instead

(Heulwen is one of my favourites)