Bronwyn?

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Opinions on Bronwyn, or Bronwen? Although we don't have any Welsh connections, I really like the name!

Do you think it's a problem with DS1 name ending with similar sound - although 1 syllable- for example Glenn (not his actual name) and Bronwyn ?

Any other suggestions of girls' names I might like?

Schloer I would tend to agree with you - I do think any parent has the right to call their child Bob short for Kate spelt Ghaat if they so wish.

@christmaspavlova

It's hardly cultural appropriation to use a specific name for a baby.

It is if you misspell it and mispronounce it

I must admit I've never even considered using a name from a different culture/origin to your own as "appropriation" - if your sole family heritage is "English" for example, you'd have a very limited pool of names (Anglo-Saxon basically, some of which sound very "out there" now!)

Only issue imo might be when the name is so uncommonly used where you live that you might have to deal with curiosity (eg. "Where is that from?/Why did you chose that?") or common spelling/pronunciation problems - but to me, Bronwen is too well known outside Wales for that.

Bronwyn is a beautiful name. If you want to use it then do so. It is so pretty.

@Derrymum123, it is a misspelt version of Bronwen.

The wyn ending is masculine

It's dated

I love it.

My American friend named her daughter Bronwen Eliza.

Cultural appropriation 😆

It’s a lovely name.

We totally and intentionally use an anglicized pronunciation of our child’s welsh name because everyone here (not wales) would get it wrong all the time.

@Greenmarmalade

Cultural appropriation 😆

It’s a lovely name.

We totally and intentionally use an anglicized pronunciation of our child’s welsh name because everyone here (not wales) would get it wrong all the time.

That's the equivalent of someone naming their child something like Cian or Sorcha and pronouncing it See-un or Sortcha.

Not great

Bronwen, not wyn. I’m not so sure of it. The only one I know - in England - is in her 80s. I don’t know how dated it feels in Wales.

It's dated in Wales because -wyn and -wen names were very popular in the 1920s-1940s

Anwen is strangely popular with welsh people who don't speak Welsh
Bronwyn is suggesed on almost every welsh baby name thread but as a Welsh speaker the spelling is just wrong

Glassofshloer

AuntDympna
Aaaargh spell check! "Brangwain" is a character in a French legend. My spell check is drunk.
Your spellcheck changed French to Welsh? hmm

I think they meant Branwen is a character on the Mabinogion, and her spellcheck corrected that to Brangwain somehow…

Branwen is Lyr's daughter in the Mabinogion, a Welsh collection of stories.
Brangwain is Iseult's handmaid in Tristan and Iseult, a French story.

@PyjamaMamma

Glassofshloer

AuntDympna
Aaaargh spell check! "Brangwain" is a character in a French legend. My spell check is drunk.
Your spellcheck changed French to Welsh? hmm

I think they meant Branwen is a character on the Mabinogion, and her spellcheck corrected that to Brangwain somehow…

I think it’s more likely she confused the Welsh character for the French one…

@SeanChailleach, Branwen was the daughter of Llŷr

Branwen and Bronwen are different names

@Glassofshloer possibly, but I think that’s what they were trying to blame the autocorrect for (rather autocorrecting French for Welsh!)

I don't have an issue giving your child a Welsh name (although I think people will assume she's Welsh which may get annoying for her), but please, Bronwen not Bronwyn. As others have said, -wyn is a masculine ending. It's like calling a girl Christopher instead of Christina.
We met a female Arwyn once, they weren't Welsh and didn't live here but had obviously been made aware several times that she had a boys' name.

Welsh people get soooooo sniffy about names on here 😂

It's pathetic.

@EishetChayil

Welsh people get soooooo sniffy about names on here 😂

It's pathetic.

Do one.

@EishetChayil, your attitude is anti-welsh bigotry.

Bronwen, if you’re going to use it. But it is quite dated. Most Bronwen’s would be late 20’s, in S.Wales anyway.

*Welsh people get soooooo sniffy about names on here 😂

It's pathetic.*

Well if I was naming my child a name in a language I didn't understand or have any connection to, I'd appreciate being told if I was planning to give a girl a boys' name.

I like the name a lot. An awful and recent real housewives of Orange County bid has made me hesitant BUT she has left and it is such rubbish I can’t imagine anyone worrying about the link !

@Feelingofftoday

Cultural appropriation much?

I think that too. Also the tale of Branwen is very gruesome, my dds are very glad I didn’t choose it.