Uncommon Welsh Girl 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 1880. | 49#3,224 | Down 931 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1910. | 19#6,276 | Up 2,565 rank positions in five years | 1965 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1937. | 25#5,212 | Down 582 rank positions in five years | 1984 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 70#2,540 | Up 550 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1977. | —Unranked | — | 1979 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1968. | 69#2,544 | Down 324 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1939. | —Unranked | — | 1971 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1991. | 41#3,699 | Up 2,122 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1903. | 11#9,069 | Down 2,638 rank positions in five years | 1971 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1977. | —Unranked | — | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1951 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1903. | 6#13,345 | new | 1925 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1984. | —Unranked | — | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2010. | 32#4,362 | Down 680 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1965. | —Unranked | — | 1972 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1918. | —Unranked | — | 1947 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1972. | —Unranked | — | 1984 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1947. | —Unranked | — | 1986 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2008. | 15#7,165 | Up 8,126 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1926. | —Unranked | — | 1939 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1998. | —Unranked | — | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1943. | —Unranked | — | 1943 |
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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.