Aseretisacoolname's Personal Name List

Aderyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Means "bird" in Welsh. This is a modern Welsh name.
Aled
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: A-lehd
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
From the name of a Welsh river, of uncertain meaning.
Alun
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: A-leen, A-lin
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Welsh form of Alan. It is also the name of two rivers in Wales.
Alwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
From the name of the River Alwen in northern Wales (a tributary of the River Dee).
Anwen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "very beautiful" in Welsh, from the intensive prefix an- combined with gwen "white, blessed".
Cadfael
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From Old Welsh Catmail meaning "battle prince", from cat "battle" and mael "prince". This was apparently the birth name of Saint Cadoc. It was used by the British author Ellis Peters for the main character in her books The Cadfael Chronicles, first released in 1977.
Cadoc
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Old Welsh [1]
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
From an Old Welsh name, recorded in Latinized forms such as Catocus, derived from cat meaning "battle". This was the name of a 6th-century Welsh saint who was martyred by the Saxons.
Cadwalader
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh (Rare)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of Cadwaladr.
Carwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Derived from Welsh caru "to love" and gwyn "white, blessed". This name was created in the 20th century [1].
Celyn
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means "holly" in Welsh. It appears briefly in the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen [1], belonging to a son of Caw, but was not typically used as a given name until the 20th century.
Ceri
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: KEH-ri
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Meaning uncertain. It could come from the name of the Ceri River in Ceredigion, Wales; it could be a short form of Ceridwen; it could be derived from Welsh caru meaning "to love".
Cledwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Possibly derived from Welsh caled "rough, hard" and gwyn "white, blessed". This is the name of a small river (Cledwen) in Conwy, Wales.
Dilys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Means "genuine" in Welsh. It has been used since the late 19th century.
Eira 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AY-ra
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
Means "snow" in Welsh. This is a recently created name.
Eirlys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: AYR-lis
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "snowdrop (flower)" in Welsh, a compound of eira "snow" and llys "plant".
Elain
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EH-lien
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Means "fawn" in Welsh. This name was created in the 19th century [1].
Emrys
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EHM-ris
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Welsh form of Ambrose. Emrys Wledig (or Ambrosius Aurelianus) was a Romano-British military leader who fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century. Tales of his life were used by the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth to help shape the early character of Merlin, whom he called Merlinus Ambrosius in Latin.
Emyr
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EH-mir
Rating: 75% based on 2 votes
Means "king, lord" in Welsh.
Enfys
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: EHN-vis
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Means "rainbow" in Welsh. This name was first used in the 19th century.
Glyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 15% based on 2 votes
Means "valley" in Welsh.
Griffith
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: GRIF-ith(English)
Rating: 60% based on 2 votes
Anglicized form of Gruffudd.
Gwendolen
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: GWEHN-də-lin(English)
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
Possibly means "white ring", derived from Welsh gwen meaning "white, blessed" and dolen meaning "ring, loop". This name appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century chronicles, written in the Latin form Guendoloena, where it belongs to an ancient queen of the Britons who defeats her ex-husband in battle [1]. Geoffrey later used it in Vita Merlini for the wife of the prophet Merlin [2]. An alternate theory claims that the name arose from a misreading of the masculine name Guendoleu by Geoffrey [3].

This name was not regularly given to people until the 19th century [4][3]. It was used by George Eliot for a character in her novel Daniel Deronda (1876).

Gwyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: GWIN(Welsh)
Rating: 30% based on 2 votes
Means "white, blessed" in Welsh. In Welsh legend Gwyn was a king of the Otherworld and the leader of the Wild Hunt. He appears in the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, where he is one of the many who help Culhwch hunt the monstrous boar Trwyth. The story also tells of his rivalry with Gwythyr for the beautiful Creiddylad.
Llewelyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Variant of Llywelyn influenced by the Welsh word llew "lion".
Llinos
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SHEE-naws, SHI-naws
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Means "linnet, finch" in Welsh. The linnet (species Linaria cannabina) is a small European bird in the finch family.
Llywelyn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: shəw-EH-lin(Welsh) loo-EHL-in(English)
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Probably a Welsh form of an unattested old Celtic name *Lugubelinos, a combination of the names of the gods Lugus and Belenus, or a compound of Lugus and a Celtic root meaning "strong". Alternatively it may be derived from Welsh llyw "leader". This was the name of several Welsh rulers, notably the 13th-century Llywelyn the Great who fought against the English.
Seren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SEH-rehn
Rating: 60% based on 1 vote
Means "star" in Welsh. This is a recently created Welsh name.
Siân
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: SHAN
Rating: 40% based on 1 vote
Welsh form of Jane.
Wynn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Pronounced: WIN
Rating: 50% based on 1 vote
Variant of Wyn.
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