Welsh names any suggestions.

[Goodmornfelds]

My husband and I are Welsh (South Wales) and live in the east of England.

We are keen to use Welsh names...we are not concerned about making a Welsh name anglicised.
What are your favourite girl/boy names? I need a bit of inspiration.

Thank you all x

I love Welsh names too

My faves are

Cadi
Gwenno
Haf
Efa
Nia

Elis
Taliesin
Gruffydd
Guto
Osian

Nia and Elis are my favs so far

I know it's old fashioned but I love Delyth. Seriously considered it for DD.

Also love:
Heulwen
Enfys
Eirianwen
Lowry
Hâf
Fflur

For a boy:
Aneurin
Dilwyn ((Dil)
Morgan
Iestyn
Geraint
Taliesen
Rhys

BlooMin autocorrect!

Lowri- not Lowry

FFS!

I love Mabli for a girl

I absolutely love Carys / Cerys. It sounds so pretty to me. My friend just names her daughter Ffion which is also really lovely.

@cinders15

Justine is the feminine version of Justin and it's English.

Rueben is a Hebrew name.

Seren
Carys

Iestyn
Owain

I know someone who’s middle name is ‘Hedd’ meaning peace.

It actually makes a much nicer sound than it looks written down!

Aled
Arwyn
Dylan
Elis
Gerallt
Gethin
Hefin
Ianto
Lloyd
Pedr

Anwen
Cadi
Caron
Ceridwen
Delyth
Eleri
Haf
Iola
Llinos
Lowri
Manon

Nia and Elis are fine.

Most of the names get mangled.
Hâf will be Haff
Efa with be Effuh, which is too close to heifer.
Eirianwen will be Erry-Anwen
Llinos will be Clee-nose etc.

Choose carefully.

I really like Anwen, Elin and Seren. We were married by a Delyth so I quite like that one too.

Hedd is lovely but will be too difficult. It will be Heth (th as in thanks), or Hed.

Delyth is terribly dated. 1950s/1960s name. Not too hard to live with though and quite nice.

most of the names get mangled.....choose carefully

That properly pisses me off. Why should Welsh people have to chose a Welsh name carefully, just because some other people chose not to pronounce a name properly or think it's funny to mispronounce?

Plenty of people get their heads round Greek, French, Spanish, Polish, Russian names etc, so why not Welsh?

@HexagonsHecateAndHecuba I agree, and I have to say most people manage my kids names fine once they have it explained to them. The only thing I purposely avoided was ‘ll’ sounds as so many people struggle with it. My Hâf is at an English university and it’s fine.

I love Ellis, I have an Ellis.

Cerys is gorgeous for a girl.

Do you think I am saying it for nothing?

Dale Carnegie “Remember that a person's name is to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language”.

Your name mangled is horrible.

Little Geraint will have a lifetime of being called Grant, Guh-rant, G'r-aint, Jeraint etc and every one of them will jar.

People can be very rude.

It is not you who has to live with the name.

Mali
Catrin
Rhian
Nia
Gwenno, Gwennan (Gwen)

Huw
Idris
Emerys
Gryffydd (Gryff)
Alyn

Caradoc - always loved that name.

Why should Welsh people have to chose a Welsh name carefully, just because some other people chose not to pronounce a name properly or think it's funny to mispronounce?

Anyone choosing a name in a different language to the one used where they are living needs to chose a name carefully. They need to balance pronunciation issues with how much constant corrections would bother them. They also need to consider whether it sounds like something rude or amusing in the local language.

My family is Welsh, I loved Myfanwy, Carys, Nia, Nerys, Sian and Seren.

BUT living in England a long way from Wales, in an area with a large Eastern European population we decided that welsh names would end up mangled as has already been said. Plus hubby and his family found spelling them strangely difficult.

so sadly didn't use them at all. I do look back though and wish I had used a couple of them as middle names.

Teleri, Lowri, Mali and Celyn for a girl
Nye, Bryn for a boy