welsh baby girl names

[softmusk]

hi i am looking for a welsh girls name that wont make the baby sound if she 90

help please

lol at Eleri pronounced like celery

it is not pronounced like celery

its - ill -air-ee!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Brownwen

Eira (means snow, I think it used to be an old person's name but I know about 4 preschool Eiras)

Manon

Mair

Mabli (god I wish I could get that one past dp, but he has learnt it is the welsh version of mabel )

I do like Seren (star) but is is SO incredibly common.

And I know several little Heulwens

Enfys (rainbow) seems quite popular round here too.

Brianna

Filly, is Seren common in your neck of the woods?
There were no Serens when I chose it 7 years ago!

Welsh is amusing in that yuo can call your kids realy hippy names like Snow (Eira) and Rainbow (Enfys) and it is completely mainstream.

Oi,

Who are you calling common!!!!

Oh, Seren with an 'e', well thats ok then!
I personally don't know any Seren's at all.

Love Delyth.

lol Seren IS very, very popular round here, but is a lovely name, so unsuprising.

Its always been on our shortlists and is a possibility for the middle name for db#3. And works well for non-Welsh speakers as its hard to pronounce wrong...

I also know a little boy called Seren (they don't live in Wales), and somehow it works very well, though I suspect for welsh speakers it might be like calling your boy "Sue"...

Do bear in mind too that most people I know ARE hippies

Seren very popular around here too ... and I'm not a big hippy

I'm actually an Eirian (means silver snow) ... but it was an absolute nightmare when growing up in England ... nobody could say it, so although I love my name, I wouldn't recommend it for any non-Welshies ... (and I have lived in South Wales for getting on for 20 years now, and it's much easier here!)

my dd is Rhiannah, derivitive of Rhiannon meaning welsh princess

My mum's called Ceri ( an abbreviated version of ceridwyn)

Also a dear friend of mine named Ceri who sadly passed away whilst I was pregnant.

I would have had Ceri as a middle name but had a boy

go for Seren. That was our choice for middle name but baby was a boy.

My dd is Eleri and everyone comments on how pretty a name it is (when they work out how to say it anyhow)

We're living in Oxfordshire at the moment (Bloke is in the RAF, so we're a bit mobile), and want a Welsh name for our baby too, especially since she is due on March 2 and I am hoping for a St David's Day baby.

I LOVE the name Seren. Unfortunately, we shot ourselves in the foot two years ago when we got a second dog and wanted a starry name to go with Sirius, the first dog...I'm sure you can guess the rest - we've got a dog called Seren and are now desperately searching for a Welsh girl's name we like as much!

hahahahah Califrau

my MIL is called Eluned....

is Aerhona welsh BTW

Spacehopper - I really love Mali as a name, unfortunately my parents named their Jack Russell terrier Mali some years ago, so that was a no-no for us.
I know of a 'Saran' though that maybe a little to close... or how about Non - mother of Dewi Sant (St David) as she's due around then?

Thanks mejon. I think Saran would be a bit close - the dog would come running whenever we called the baby! I think we're leaning towards Ffion at the moment.

Mali is fabulous, it's the welsh version of Molly.