Check before giving your child a name like this...

[Pidlan]

I'm Welsh. It's my first language, and I speak it every day, do most of my work through the medium of Welsh etc. Today, I went on several baby names websites and found sections with Welsh baby names that are really shocking. For example:
Artaith. This means torture.
Anfri. Means disgrace.
Atgas. Hateful.
Duach. Blacker.

Also, loads of random Welsh words that are not names, and sound ridiculous, like Arwydd (sign, like a sign in a shop) or Cawell (cage.)

Also seeing a lot of mixing up the suffixes. In Welsh, -wyn is male, -wen is female. So Bronwyn is, in fact, a name (which I quite like actually) that originated in a mistake. I recently met a female Olwyn- The Welsh name is Olwen. Olwyn means wheel.

Just thought I'd post in case anyone's thinking of giving their child a name in a language they don't speak. Beware!

Every day is a school day. Although Arwydd sounds quite pretty.....

I think Artaith is quite a pretty sounding name! But I am imagining a little girl walking around with that name...

Did the website attribute different meanings to the names, Pidlan? Most of them give a meaning of some kind (often wrong!) to make them seem even more attractive.

What a pity about Anfri's real meaning. There is a very old Orkney name Anfrie, which means "beautiful bird", a bit different from its Welsh homonym!