Uncommon Welsh Boy Names
Welsh names draw on the language, literature, and a long history of local naming forms. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1890. | 209#1,051 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 1982 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1986. | 104#1,631 | Down 285 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1880. | 67#2,154 | Up 93 rank positions in five years | 1925 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1969. | 61#2,285 | Up 404 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1926. | 18#5,215 | Down 787 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1913. | 13#6,463 | Down 471 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1923 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2004. | 6#11,181 | Down 2,866 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2007. | 20#4,908 | Up 1,834 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2012. | 6#10,900 | Down 2,718 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1996. | —Unranked | — | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2017. | 9#8,732 | Up 1,577 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2017. | 10#7,718 | new | 2024 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1989. | —Unranked | — | 1996 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2000. | —Unranked | — | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2014. | —Unranked | — | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2020. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1983. | —Unranked | — | 1983 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1988. | —Unranked | — | 1988 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1994. | —Unranked | — | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2005. | —Unranked | — | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2008. | —Unranked | — | 2008 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.