Maldwyn

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Honest opinions please

Maybe we'll use it as a middle name...
Thankyou for the honest replies x

I like it :) Yes it's old-fashioned but old-fashioned names are coming back in. I think Mal would suit a young child and who knows by the time they were an adult there could be lots of little Maldwyns running around :)

In many languages, including English, mal means bad.

I prefer Malgwyn, it doesn’t sound as harsh.

Malgwyn? Did you just make that up?

On a separate note, it really pisses me off when people go 'eurrrgh NO' at a name when they've no idea about its provenance

are we allowed to say eeurrgh no if we do know it's provenance?

Malgwyn? Did you just make that up?

It's a name.

I've never heard the name Malgwyn before. Do you mean Maelgwn? Maelgwn sounds better than Maldwyn but the -cwn association would put me off (cwn = dogs in modern Welsh).

If you simply google Malgwyn you will find examples of people with the name

Just googled and no it doesn't.

Who is this guy then, for a start?
www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/features/first_person/14572139.FIRST_PERSON__Malgwyn_Davies_OBE__chairman_of_St_David_s_Hospice_Care/

@FizzyGreenWater you beat me by 2 clear days! What a great film that was. Must dig out my DVD.

OP - it is a bit of an old man's name but Mal is a lovely shortening. I'm also a big fan of Tal as a shortening of Talfryn or Taliesin.

Who is that person? Why, he's the only Malgwyn in the known world that's who.

And THAT is why he got an OBE.

I have a unique name, will I be made a Dame?

Fair enough Cheerio he does look like a Malgwyn, too.

Sorry but it makes me think malwoden every time I hear it! (Snail)

PS Malgwyn's mother made that up myn!

She must have been going for a Maelgwyn/Maldwyn mash-up.

Maybe they were the two Dadcus and there was a fist fight at the registrars.

Who says that made-up names are a modern thing!!!

It's a bit Harry Potter.

Harry Maldwyn Potter

i adooooooore all welsh names!

It's hilarious. It really did make me laugh. No, you can't use it.

Sorry but it makes me think malwoden every time I hear it! (Snail)

Me too! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Love it. Go for it

You OP asked for opinions so I answered the direct question and gave mine earlier... but please don't let random strangers on the internet put you off a perfectly reasonable name! We all have responses to all sorts of names that are 'normal' as well as to more unusual ones.
I personally don't think enough people keep more unusual traditional names alive..

I can't believe this is still going.

Go the whool hog Mog!