Welsh Girl 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 848#360 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 1953 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1952. | 102#1,906 | Down 1,026 rank positions in five years | 1985 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1895. | 656#469 | Up 116 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 284#923 | Up 181 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1954. | —Unranked | — | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1890. | 384#725 | Up 98 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1943. | 767#407 | Down 74 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1974. | 210#1,119 | Up 38 rank positions in five years | 1999 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1902. | 17#6,719 | Up 375 rank positions in five years | 1964 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1955. | —Unranked | — | 1986 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1885. | 30#4,585 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1949. | 94#2,021 | Down 258 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1957. | 80#2,297 | Down 1,062 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1915. | 114#1,771 | Down 329 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1912. | 295#899 | Up 112 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1942. | 37#3,915 | Down 458 rank positions in five years | 1964 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1968. | 158#1,384 | Up 345 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1957. | —Unranked | — | 1985 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1991. | 32#4,374 | Down 278 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1922. | 10#9,678 | Up 1,774 rank positions in five years | 1962 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1939. | —Unranked | — | 1963 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1923. | 6#13,798 | Up 244 rank positions in five years | 1951 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1972. | 37#3,909 | Down 222 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1981. | 50#3,207 | Up 942 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1941. | 10#9,566 | Up 845 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
Recorded in Welsh as Siân; in U.S. records from 1962. | 5#16,921 | Down 9,404 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1911. | —Unranked | — | 1925 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1998. | —Unranked | — | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1998. | 9#10,178 | new | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1981. | —Unranked | — | 1988 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1952. | —Unranked | — | 2006 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1975. | —Unranked | — | 1975 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 1913. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 2014. | —Unranked | — | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Welsh; in U.S. records from 2018. | —Unranked | — | 2018 | ||
Welsh-rooted name; in U.S. records from 2016. | —Unranked | — | 2016 |
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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.