What Welsh girls names are fashionable?

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Friend still looking for a Welsh girls name. She doesn’t live in Wales but is of Welsh heritage.

Is Ffion still an acceptable name in Wales?

I’ve said that in see posts in here saying some names are very old lady

what Welsh field manners are fashionable at the moment?

@woodenblox , you've misinterpreted me. I'd be surprised if a culturally Welsh couple living in a Welsh-speaking area chose a name like the ones in the list.

will always either never be Welsh enough, I think something like Alfie spelt Alffi or Ottilie spelt Otili might fit that description.

or be somehow too Welsh Impossible , but naming your son Pwyll is probably not a good idea if you live in an area where nobody else speaks Welsh.

If you were living somewhere like Deeside and not Welsh-speaking, names like Dylan and Carys will seem quite fresh and appealing. If you live somewhere like Llanberis you will know loads of middle-aged ones.

For comparison, the most popular English names where I live include David and Julia. Would you say they were fashionable English names?

Sorry if I’ve misinterpreted but what is a “culturally Welsh” couple, these days? Not from Cardiff? This is what I mean about the “not Welsh enough” attitude, this kind of talk just smacks of the self-appointed Welshness police who have always loved popping up to be welsher-than-thou because tadcu ran the Eisteddfod or whatever, even though the language is thriving in more areas and more schools in urban areas are using Welsh day to day. In Cardiff, these Welsh names are fashionable. Welsh speaking families in Cardiff are just as culturally Welsh as anyone else

I think it is a good point on choosing names depending on how Welsh you are. I've lived in an English speaking area of NE Wales for 20 plus years. I'm originally from Oswestry and my husband is from Wrexham. We wanted a welsh name, but one that everyone knows how to pronounce, and isn't too difficult to spell! If we lived in Blaenau Ffestiniog, and were Welsh speakers then we'd consider Welsh names that don't work in English.

@woodenblox , Jack and Becky born and bred in Deeside are Welsh. They don't speak Welsh but had lessons when they were in high school. They support Wales in rugby and football. They might watch Sgorio (S4C sports programme) but other than that, they don't hear much Welsh at all.

Osian and Elliw were born in Llanberis. They speak Welsh at home and at work. Their education was Welsh medium. They socialise more or less entirely in Welsh.

Both couples are Welsh but the culture is markedly different.

If you compared Myrddin ap Dafydd and Neville Southall, two Welsh men roughly the same age and born within a few miles of each other, would you say that their cultural heritage is the same?

@HairyToity 's post nails it.
If she was looking for a name, something like Idris, Gethin or Osian would fit the bill.
The couple from Blaenau Ffestiniog might be considering names like Lleu, Ynyr or Iori and I don't think they'd be on Hairy's radar.

I'm now wondering if M ap D was an ace goalie in his youth and if NS keeps himself busy writing cynghaneddion.

No idea as I moved to Europe after university, but as a Welsh person I have always loved Angharad (pronounced ang-HAH-rad)

I adore the name Mabli too. Both, I would have liked to use for my own dd's but went for names more internationally known, and for them to have names that wouldn't forever need explaining, correcting spelling and pronunciation etc.

Interestingly most of my Welsh speaking friends from Welsh speaking areas have children called names like Magi, Nansi, Harri, Macs.
I live in a predominantly English speaking area but very close to a Welsh medium school so most neighbours speak Welsh. Their children have names like Osian, Ieuan, Angharad, Llinos.

Mabli, Eiri, Cadi, Tali, Eila, Hali

I live in South Wales
I know a Ffion and Manon who are sisters in their teens.i know Cadi and Mali who are 4 and have a sister called Anwen
I know at least 3 Angharads under 30
Not many Rhiannons but a few
Under 25:
Cerith (m) , Ceinwen (f) Sioned (f) Llewellyn (m) Taliesin (m) and Siriol (f) Sian (f)

This is a misspelling of the Cornish Elowen. It doesn’t have any origins in Welsh :)

How do you pronounce Enfys?

EN-viss

delilabell · 31/01/2024 07:01
Emphys Welsh for rainbow

The poster was swiftly corrected.

I wonder if little Emphys's middle name was Ema.

Interestingly most of my Welsh speaking friends from Welsh speaking areas have children called names like Magi, Nansi, Harri, Macs.
Lili and Elsi are popular but quite a few 'very Welsh' names too.

My husband is Welsh, my kids have Welsh names but we now live in England! I love my kids names but it’s utterly surprising how many people can not read or say them, my kids find it really difficult at school especially my eldest at high school, people take the mick all the time. Unless she lives in Wales I really would pick one of the more common names people recognise.

I’m Welsh and live in South Wales - not Welsh speaking.

The most common names I would say that we’ve come across in kids under 5 are Alys, Cadi, Efa, Mali, Seren

For boys Dylan, Harri, Jac, Macsen & Osian.

Carys is a lovely name.

@Thedogscollar , I can't see the appeal at all. I know lots of them and they're all age 55+.

It's probably regional but it was so popular in the 1960s that it seems like someone saying Karen is a beautiful name.

It is used for babies but in 2026 the same number of girls were registered as Eileen. (I quite like Eileen in terms of how it sounds but it's not AFAIK fashionable and the song would put me off. I think it's Eibhlín in Gaeilge, which might be not as closely associated with that song.)

Nia 💕 meaning ‘bright’ or ‘radiant’

It's not fashionable.