What Welsh girls popular in Wales now?

[Lucasboo]

Thinking of girls names with Welsh connections.

Really like Cadi but does it matter it’s a derivative of Caitlin/Katherine as we have one in close family already.

Like Seren too but know it’s quite popular. I wondered what was popular in Wales at the moment. Moving there soon.

Cadi is a lovely name. I don't think it matters that you have Caitlin or Katherine in the family. Lots of short nice Welsh names for girls- Lili, Elin, Lois, Siân, Efa, Ela, Alis, Erin, Anna, Cari, Elen,

If you look at the ONS data for 2020 on Table 3 there is the top 100 girls names for Wales.

You can get the regional data from the ONS.

In 2020, the top 100 names in Wales included the following Welsh names (rank in brackets).

None in the top ten, and quite a few are Welsh spelling of names that are also in the top 100 with another spelling (e.g. Nansi, Efa, Elsi).

Mali (20)
Alys (30)
Ffion (33)
Seren (43)
Eira (46)
Lili (69)
Cadi (71)
Nansi (72)
Efa (75)
Eleri (81)
Elsi (=87)
Nia (=87)
Elin (92)
Lowri (96)

Thank you for that. Never thought to look there

Cadi
Nia
Seren

I really like. Have an Ela :)

I think Cadi is fine, it's sufficiently different from Katharine/Catherine in appearance and sound so doesn't matter if she has an aunt or cousin with that name IMO.

I really like Cadi and Nia and both go very nicely with Ela. Mari is also nice but outside the top 100 as is Tesni.

I had Tesni on my list. I just love the meaning

Cadi is fine, Nia more classic and was very popular in the 1960s and 1970s, I don't like Seren as it's too modern for my liking. Tesni is nice

Efa is very much a welsh name - it is Welsh for Eve, but it's a bit too close to Ela unless you are hoping to not buy a new set of name tags

I think the meaning of Tesni is just beautiful and I like that she could use Tess as a shortening if she wanted.

Nia has a good story behind it. It would be on my list for a DD if it weren't for Osian being my top choice for a boy.

Just thought of Mabli which is lovely.

Someone's resurrected a thread from 2014 where someone was considering Nia and Iona and it reminded me how much I like Iona.

There were negative responses to Nia on it, which seemed a bit mean.
Iona is Yonna not Yo-na, although you might hear both,, it's usually Yonna as it's from Ionawr (January) and given to January-born baby girls

The trends tend to be a bit similar to the english names ones (Ella/Ela, Mabel/Mabli, May/Mai, Eve/Eva, Niamh/Nia...) **Niamh is irish

What about Sian?

I expect it's very old-fahioned, but I like Eiluned/Eluned. And its Anglicised form - Linnet - is also pretty.

I don't think Eluned is old fashioned, but I suspect it might get spelt as Luned sometimes. Didn't know Linnet was meant to be the anglicised form.

Llinos is welsh for Linnet and is a name. I know several, but it isn't the easiest to say if you don't speak Welsh. It really isn't Cleenose.

Llinos is beautiful, a friend of mine had it as a middle name as it was hard to pronounce if your not Welsh speaking. Llinos llwyd ..but she'd get called all kinds

Llinos Lwyd or Llinos Werdd, surely.

DacwMamYnDwad

In old stories about King Arthur, which as you know are based on Welsh sources as well as others from Brittany etc, there are characters named Lunete and Lynet:

The earlier is French (Chretien de Troyes, 12th cent):
Lunete (French, based on Welsh Luned) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunete]]

The later is English (Thomas Malory, 15th cent)
Lynet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_and_Lyonesse

Behind the Name suggests that Lynet is an English version of Lunete, which is a French version of Eluned (or Luned) www.behindthename.com/name/lynet
It's normally a pretty reliable site, but anyone can make mistakes, of course:

I've been told that Lynette is from Eluned.
The Lyn Ette pronunciation is not from welsh but might tie in with a french origin

An Eluned told me years ago that the meaning was to do with the moon.

I’m in North Wales and the names I hear are :
Seren , Elin , Lois, Nel, Megan , Elan , Llinos, Nia , Haf, Mabli , Mai , Cerys , Ceri , Catrin, Sioned , Lowri , Lawri , Rhian , Rhiannon , Carys , Ela , Teleri, Tesni , Tegan ,
For teenagers

Little ones are Nansi , Elsi , Eira , Lia , Mali,