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Are you looking for some Welsh names for your new puppy. In this article we give you a selection of inspiration.
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We give you the name, whether it was originally male or female and what is the meaning.
| Name | Male or female | Meaning |
| ADERYN | FEMALE | Means “bird” in Welsh |
| AERON | FEMALE / MALE | River Aeron in Wales, Aeron in Welsh meant: “queen of brightness” |
| AFON | FEMALE / MALE | Means “river” in Welsh. |
| ALED | MALE | mall river near Conwy County Borough |
| ALIS | FEMALE | Welsh form of ALICE |
| ALUN | MALE | Welsh form of ALAN. |
| ANDRAS | MALE | Welsh variant of ANDREAS. |
| ANWEN | FEMALE | Means “very beautiful” in Welsh |
| BETHAN | FEMALE | Welsh shortened version of ELIZABETH. |
| BETRYS | FEMALE | Welsh form of BEATRICE. |
| BERWYN | MALE | the Berwyn range of mountains in northeast Wales |
| BRONWEN | FEMALE | Welsh bron “breast” and -wen, gwen “fair””white” |
| BRYN | FEMALE / MALE | Means “hill, mound” in Welsh. |
| CADELL | MALE | Various Welsh kings and princes |
| CADFAEL | MALE | Comes from Welsh cad “battle” and mael “prince”. |
| CADFAN | MALE | Comes from Welsh cad “battle” and ban “peak”. Saint Cadfan, sometimes Anglicized as Gideon, was the 6th century founder-abbot of Tywyn and Bardsey, both in Gwynedd, Wales |
| CADOC | MALE | Derived from Welsh cad meaning “battle”. Saint Cadoc or Cadog was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, Wales |
| CARYS | FEMALE | Derived from Welsh caru meaning “love” |
| CATRIN | FEMALE | Welsh form of KATHERINE |
| CEFIN | MALE | Welsh form of KEVIN |
| CELYN | MALE | Means “holly” in Welsh. Also Llyn Celyn, large reservoir in the valley of the River Tryweryn in North Wales |
| COLWYN | MALE | Colwyn Bay is a town, community and seaside resort in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales overlooking the Irish Sea |
| CRYSTIN | FEMALE | Welsh form of CHRISTINE. |
| DAFYDD | MALE |
Welsh form of DAVID. Dafydd ap Gruffydd was Prince of Wales from 11 December 1282 until his execution on 3 October 1283 by King Edward I of England. He was the last independent ruler of Wales
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| DAI | MALE | a diminutive form of Dafydd (David). Several famous sportsman have had this name. |
| DELYTH | FEMALE | meaning “pretty and blessed” |
| DEWEY | MALE | Welsh form of DAVID. |
| DILWYN | MALE | Derived from the Welsh element dilys “genuine” combined with gwyn “white, fair, blessed”. |
| DILYS | FEMALE | Means “genuine” in Welsh. |
| DYLAN | MALE |
Meaning “son of the sea”, “son of the wave”, or “born from the ocean”. Dylan ail Don represents darkness while his twin brother Lleu Llaw Gyffes represents light. But the more common interpretation is that Dylan is a Welsh sea-god.
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| EFA | FEMALE | Welsh form of EVA. |
| EIRA | FEMALE | Means “snow” in Welsh. |
| EIRIAN | FEMALE / MALE | Means “bright, beautiful” in Welsh. |
| ELAIN | FEMALE | Means “fawn” in Welsh. |
| ELEN | FEMALE | Saint Elen is traditionally considered a saint in the Welsh Church; she is known as Saint Helen of Caernarfon |
| ELERI | FEMALE | Eleri, daughter of Brychan Brycheiniog, the Welsh, 5th-century king |
| EMLYN | MALE | one of the seven cantrefi of Dyfed, an ancient district of Wales, which became part of Deheubarth in around 950 |
| EMRYS | MALE | Welsh form of AMBROSE. |
| EMYR | MALE | Means “king, lord” in Welsh. |
| ENFYS | FEMALE / MALE | Means “rainbow” in Welsh. Enfys Nest was a human female resistance fighter in Star Wars |
| ENID | FEMALE | The origin is Middle Welsh eneit, meaning “spirit, life”. Lots of famous references such as Enid Blyton who was a British children's writer |
| EVAN | MALE | Anglicized form of Iefan, a Welsh form of JOHN. |
| FFION | FEMALE | means “purple foxglove” in Welsh. |
| GAENOR | FEMALE | Welsh variant of GAYNOR. |
| GARETH | MALE | Lots of references. Sir Gareth is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, Gareth Bale the footballer |
| GERAINT | MALE | a character from Welsh folklore and Arthurian legend. He was a king of Dumnonia and a valiant warrior |
| GERALLT | MALE | Welsh form of GERALD. |
| GETHIN | MALE | Means “dark-skinned, swarthy” in Welsh. |
| GLADYS | FEMALE | from the Welsh name Gwladus or Gwladys, which bears the meaning of royalty (princess) |
| GLAW | FEMALE / MALE | Means “rain” in Welsh. |
| GLENDA | FEMALE | glân “pure, clean” and da “good”. |
| GLENYS | FEMALE | a Welsh female given name meaning “clean, holy” |
| GLYN | MALE | Means “valley” in Welsh. |
| GRWN | MALE | Means “ridge” in Welsh. |
| GWYN | MALE | given names or surnames meaning “white” or/and “blessed” in Welsh |
| HAF | FEMALE | Means “summer” in Welsh. |
| HARRI | MALE | Welsh form of HARRY. |
| HAUL | MALE | Means “sun” in Welsh. |
| HEFIN | MALE | Means “summer” in Welsh. |
| HELEDD | FEMALE | Canu Heledd are a collection of early Welsh englyn-poems |
| HUW | MALE | Welsh form of HUGH. |
| HYWEL | MALE | Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog, 9th-century king of Gwynedd |
| IAGO | MALE | a form of the given name Jacob, a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello |
| IDRIS | MALE | “Ardent lord”, from udd (lord, prince) + ris (ardent, enthusiastic, impulsive). Idris Elba is a good example |
| IFAN | MALE | Welsh form of JOHN. |
| ITHEL | MALE | Ithel or Idwal ap Morgan was a king of Gwent and Glywysing in southeastern Wales |
| IVOR | MALE | derived from Old Norse Ívarr, adopted in Wales in the spelling Ifor. |
| IWAN | MALE | Welsh form of JOHN. |
| LOWRI | FEMALE | Welsh form of LAURA. |
| LUC | MALE | Welsh form of Lucas |
| MABON | MALE | Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band. |
| MABYN | FEMALE | a medieval Cornish saint. According to local Cornish tradition she was one of the many children of Brychan, king of Brycheiniog in Wales in the 5th century. |
| MACSEN | MALE | Welsh form of MAXIMUS. |
| MADOC | MALE | according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to America in 1170 |
| MAIR | FEMALE | Welsh form of MARY. |
| MALLT | FEMALE | Welsh form of MAUD. |
| MARED | FEMALE | Welsh form of MARGARET. |
| MEGAN | FEMALE | Welsh diminutive of MARGARET. |
| MEICAL | MALE | Welsh form of MICHAEL. |
| MEINIR | FEMALE | Means “maiden” in Welsh. |
| MEREDITH | FEMALE / MALE |
the name was usually rendered as Morgetuid or Margetiud.The meaning of the first element, Mere, is unclear although some scholars have translated it as “great” or “splendid”.The final element of iudd has the meaning of lord
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| MOSTYN | MALE | a village and community in Flintshire, Wales, |
| NERYS | FEMALE | |
| NESTA | FEMALE | Welsh diminutive of AGNES. |
| OLWEN | FEMALE | is the daughter of the giant Ysbaddaden and cousin of Goreu. She is the heroine of the story Culhwch and Olwen in the Mabinogion |
| OWAIN | MALE | Owain Glyndŵr was a Welsh leader who instigated an unsuccessful war of independence with the aim of ending English rule in Wales during the Late Middle Ages |
| OWEN | MALE | Anglicized form of OWAIN. |
| OWENA | FEMALE | Female version of OWEN |
| PADRIG | MALE | Welsh form of PATRICK |
| PEDR | MALE | Welsh form of PETER. |
| REECE | MALE | Anglicized form of RHYS. |
| RHIAN | FEMALE | the common Welsh word for “maiden” |
| RHIANNON | FEMALE |
a major figure in the Mabinogi, the medieval Welsh story collection. She appears mainly in the First Branch of the Mabinogi, and again in the Third Branch. Also a Fleetwood Mac song
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| RHISIART | MALE | Welsh form of RICHARD. |
| RHODRI | MALE | Rhodri the Great succeeded his father, Merfyn Frych, as King of Gwynedd in 844 |
| RHOSYN | FEMALE | Means “rose” in Welsh. |
| RHYS | MALE |
a popular Welsh given name (usually male), which is famous in Welsh history and which is also used as a surname. It originates from Deheubarth, an old region of South West Wales
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| SEREN | FEMALE | Means “star” in Welsh. |
| SIÂN | FEMALE | Welsh form of JEANNE. |
| SIARL | MALE | Welsh form of CHARLES. |
| SIÔN | MALE | Welsh form of JOHN |
| SIONED | FEMALE | Welsh form of JANET. |
| TEGAN | MALE | a diminutive of the Welsh word teg (“fair”) and means “darling,” “loved one,” or “favourite,” and is the normal Welsh word for “toy. |
| TESNI | FEMALE | Means “warmth from the sun” in Welsh |
| TIWLIP | FEMALE | Means “tulip” in Welsh. |
| TREVOR | MALE | the Welsh tre(f), meaning “homestead”, or “settlement” and a form of mawr, meaning “large, big” |
| YORATH | MALE | Anglicized form of IORWERTH. |
You can also get inspiration from generic welsh words, here are some examples
| Welsh | English |
| afon | river |
| allt | hillside, wood |
| bach | little |
| bryn | hill |
| caer | fort, stronghold |
| capel | chapel |
| cefn | ridge |
| craig | rock |
| croes | cross, crossroads |
| crug | hillock |
| dinas | city |
| dol | meadow |
| garth | enclosure, garden, ridge |
| glan | bank of river or lake |
| glyn | deep valley |
| gwaun | moorland |
| hafod | summer farmstead |
| hendre | winter farmstead |
| llannerch | clearing |
| llyn | lake |
| maen | stone |
| mawr | big |
| melin | mill |
| merthyr | martyrium |
| moel | bare hill |
| môr | sea |
| morfa | salt marsh |
| ogof | cave |
| pentre | homestead, village |
| plas | hall, mansion |
| pont | bridge |
| porth | harbour, gateway |
| pwll | pool |
| rhaeadr | waterfall |
| rhos | moor, promontory |
| rhyd | ford |
| tafarn | inn, tavern |
| traeth | beach |
| tref | village, town |
How about some Welsh towns, here is a few examples
Flint , Kenfig, Brecon, bangor, Bala, Neath, Nefyn, Rhyl, Tenby and Risca