Celtic Name Generator

How this list was compiled: Real first names in the six living Celtic languages, built on 2 October 2026 from English Wiktionary's lists of given names by language (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Given_names_by_language, the male and female lists of each language, read 2 October 2026). Scottish Gaelic (197 names), Breton (146), Manx (108) and Cornish (11) are taken in full: every single-word name on the two lists that has an entry in that language. The Cornish lists are short. Irish (40) and Welsh (40) are samples of forty: the Irish sample is taken at even steps through the alphabet from the listed names that are not on this site's page of Irish names and whose entry gives an English form, a parent name or a gloss; the Welsh sample is the listed names in the 2025 top 100 for Wales that carry such a fact, filled up one letter at a time through the alphabet from the names whose entry glosses the words they are made from. One Irish name is kept out of the sample because its gloss is a drink. A card gives the language, whether the entry marks the name for girls or boys, and what the entry gives and nothing more: the English form, the name it is a variant or a pet form of, and the words it is made from with their glosses, from the first paragraph of the etymology that belongs to the given name. Every glossed part of a compound is printed. Nothing is printed where the entry calls the origin possible, uncertain, unknown, disputed or a folk etymology, or gives two rival origins. Where an entry has one line for girls and one for boys, the name is marked for both and each fact says which line it comes from. Four English short forms that are also unkind or crude words are left off four cards. 406 of the 540 cards carry at least one fact; a card with none gives the language alone. No meaning and no pronunciation is written by us. A spelling listed in two languages has one card found under both. That there are six living Celtic languages, four spoken without a break and two revived (Cornish and Manx), and that Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic or Gaelic group and Welsh, Cornish and Breton the Brittonic group, is from English Wikipedia's 'Celtic languages' and 'Goidelic languages' (read 2 October 2026). Single first names only. No speaker of these languages has read the list. Licence: Names, English forms and glosses: English Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The selection is our own work.