Welsh names for a girl

[Zanzan1]

Hi I'm looking for a Welsh girls name but would like to hear from people living in England what works and what doesn't. We live in England at the moment and I am wary of my DD having to put up with people struggling.

I really like Essyllt but know this might be a problem. Would like something a bit more unusual.

Glesni and Esyllt are both nice. Esyllt will be hard for people to pronounce though. Please don't go with Gwylan though as it's the Welsh word for 'seagull'.

Nia and Anwen are good suggestions that are easy to pronounce. Megan is quite common outside Wales too.

Catrin
Bethan
Elen
Alaw
Siwan

Tesni

Ceri
Cerys
Rhiannon
Sian
Fionn
Bethan
Nerys
Lowri

We have a Carys Bethan
Also lovely are Seren and Cariad

I only know male Eilirs. Betsan is lovely and I recently met a lovely baby Loti. Also like Mabli or Siwan,

Carys
Eleri
Seren.
All are beautiful names.

OP, There is so much to comment on.
The name is Esyllt. Only one s. Lovely but the ll will cause problems.

june2007, Olwyn isn't a name, it's the word for wheel. The girl's name is Olwen. Rhiannon has two ns. Rhianna is made up and Rhianne is wrong on all levels.

I love Non too.

OpiesOldLady Celyn
Briallau - made up
Eilir - boy's name
Delyn - borough in NE wales
Gwendolyn - anglicised version of Gwendolen (the stress is on dol not Gwen)
Bronwyn - it is Bronwen

gillybombilly I've never seen the name Eres. I have heard of Aeres.
Rhedyn is just the welsh word for bracken. Aderyn is the welsh word for bird. They are not names.
Gwylan was a character in a very popular welsh novel. It is the word for seagull.

I also like Siwan, but there are at least two ways of pronouncing it in Welsh.
SHOO-ann or like Iwan with an S at the start.
I know welsh people who have avoided it for this reason.
I would say it S-Iwan.

I think if you live outside of Wales, many, many of the beautiful names on this thread will be absolutely murdered in pronunciation (I love Eirlys, but avoided for this reason) or will be difficult to remember the spelling for non-Welsh. Also you may end up with some nicknames you don't much like!

I'd go with PP's advice that shorter is better, and to avoid the 'll'. so many Welsh names are beautiful but the pronuciation and stresses on the syllables are not instinctive - as this thread shows!

How about Annest?

Eirian
Mair

Knowing some Welsh (tipyn bach!) I don't like any of the names like Seren, Eira, Cariad, Deryn.
Star, Snow, Love or Bird are not great English names I don't know why people are keen use them in another language.

Most of the Welsh speakers I know have called their children names like Maggi, Anni, Elyn, Alys, Mabli, Lowri. Names that work well in English although Lowri is often not pronounced properly.

Stick to the easy ones.

Elin
Manon
Carys

I like Medi, Mali and Nia too. And Heledd, though old fashioned now and maybe tricksy.

But no Llinos or Buddug or Morfydd please - or a sticky end awaits over the bridge.

Mabli just says sheepdog to me but I know a couple now! Pretty name tho.

I'm Welsh (but now live in England). My family are all still there. My Dsis has beautiful Welsh names for all her children. I opted for an English name for my dd.
Anyway my favs are -

Mali (I believe a Welsh form of Molly)
Rhian
Catrin
Delyth
Eira

Off the top of my head the names I love are Fflur, Loti, Lili and Mali.

notso it's Elin not Elyn.

A lot of the names suggested are dated. They are names that would have been very popular in the 1950s and 1960s. (Eirian, Eleri, Carys, Rhian...). I doubt that welsh speakers would use these names for their babies nowadays.

Most of the suggestions are difficult to get right if you don't speak Welsh.

ia in a name is usually a "ya" sound. not a ee-a one.
Eirian is EHR-yan, Marian is MARR-yan, Cerian is CERR-yan, Arianwen is Arr-YAN-wen, Cariad is CARR-yad etc.

The one I know is most definitely Elyn with a y mikeuniformmike

It's not a Welsh name. Elin is an old Welsh name and very popular. That's probably a take on it.
Elin is pronounces EL-in with the i like the i in big, not like the i in it.

I've posted a lot on Welsh names. Most of them get mangled.

Manon will be Manun
Mali will be Mahly
Mari will be Marie or Mahri
Medi looks too much like medicated
Mair will be My-uh
Efa will be Effuh or Eefuh
...

Carys and Delyth are fairly safe but so dated.

Here is a pp of mine

I'll probably get flamed but I would avoid names with:
Rh, ngh
ei, eu ,ew
ia
Ae, Au
uw
yw
Ge, Gi
Ce, Ci
Ch
Ll
F
Dd
letter combinations as they tend not to travel. Names ending in -an tend to sound like -un etc. Try the names out to see if they are wet with an WTF attitude or if they get mangled. If you are ok with Elin pronounced as ELL-in then go for it.
(FWIW the welsh pronunciation of Elin is ELL-in with the I sounding like the i in the english word big)

Ffion is spelt like that not Fionn as in pp.
Nice name.

It's not a Welsh name. Elin is an old Welsh name and very popular. That's probably a take on it. Elin is pronounces EL-in with the i like the i in big, not like the i in it.

I'd always assumed it was Welsh as parents are Welsh speakers and other children's names Welsh. They pronounce it El-in, though English folk tend to pronounce it
Ell-un.
Confused by your big and it example I'd say the i the same way in both.

It depends on your accent notso.
In mine, they sound different. Try saying big and bit.

If I wrote them down phonetically as if they were Welsh words, one would be big and the other would be but. (the english word but would be written as byt).

Cariad isn’t a name.