Welsh Boy Names
Welsh names draw on the language, literature, and a long history of local naming forms. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1953. | 6,208#41 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1915. | 400#680 | Down 273 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1880. | 234#977 | Down 389 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1880. | 532#559 | Up 136 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1929. | 778#412 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 58#2,377 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1906. | 8#9,179 | Down 4,426 rank positions in five years | 1954 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1916. | 46#2,775 | Down 106 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1883. | —Unranked | — | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1902. | 84#1,870 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 12#6,943 | Down 857 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 16#5,747 | Up 746 rank positions in five years | 1916 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1905. | —Unranked | — | 1937 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1899. | 22#4,595 | Up 1,484 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1950. | 8#9,590 | Down 2,607 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1947. | 12#6,863 | Down 513 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1997. | 157#1,260 | Up 530 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1953. | 5#13,793 | Down 3,252 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1969. | 38#3,129 | Up 686 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1917. | 5#12,481 | new | 1959 | ||
Recorded in Welsh as Siôn; in U.S. records from 1912. | 42#2,980 | Up 142 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1970. | 8#8,923 | Down 837 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1915. | 15#5,964 | Up 3,080 rank positions in five years | 1956 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2002. | 40#3,062 | Up 1,902 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1997. | 6#10,883 | Down 78 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1990. | —Unranked | — | 1997 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1916. | 17#5,514 | Up 5,921 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1966 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1944. | 16#5,839 | new | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1994. | —Unranked | — | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1998. | 7#10,407 | Up 3,129 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1976. | —Unranked | — | 1985 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1958. | —Unranked | — | 1958 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2017. | —Unranked | — | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1923. | —Unranked | — | 1923 |
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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.