Welsh Name Generator

How this list was compiled: Given names: the single-word names that English Wiktionary files under 'Welsh male given names' and 'Welsh female given names' (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Welsh_male_given_names and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Welsh_female_given_names, read 2 October 2026) and that have a Welsh entry: names as the Welsh language writes them, which takes in Welsh spellings of names used elsewhere (Tomos, Samuel) beside names made from Welsh words. A name has a card only when the card can say something about it: a fact from its entry or a mark of use in 2025; 75 listed names with neither are left out. A card gives what the name's 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, taken 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 or disputed, or gives two rival origins in its text; where the entry's own line lists two source words they are printed as it lists them. 153 of the 206 given-name cards carry at least one fact, and no meaning is written by us. One gloss, on two cards, is printed in American spelling (vigor). Whether a name is for girls or boys is the entry's own mark. Five names are left out for that mark: four that the 2025 register lists only for the other sex than the entry says (Efa, Eleri, Esra, Anes) and one whose mark contradicts the entry's own note on its masculine twin (Eurwen). An English form that is also a crude word is left off one card. Marks of use: the Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, 2025 (released 9 July 2026, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsgirls and the matching boys' file, read 2 October 2026). 'Given to babies in England and Wales in 2025' means the spelling is in table 6 of the file for that sex, which lists every name given to three or more babies; a band (top 10, top 50, top 100) is the name's place in table 3, the top 100 for Wales. 114 given names carry a mark and 18 of them a band for Wales. The dictionary's lists are far fuller under A than under any other letter, so 88 of the 206 given names begin with A; that is how the source is, not how Welsh names are spread. The cards print no pronunciation: the entries give it only in phonetic symbols. Family names: the 14 surnames that English Wikipedia's 'Welsh surnames' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_surnames, read 2 October 2026) names with their history: seven that closed up from ap or ab and a father's name, three it gives as a father's name with an s added, and four it calls typical Welsh surnames. This is a sample; the page of Welsh last names holds the fuller list. No speaker of Welsh has read the list. Licence: Names, English forms and glosses: English Wiktionary and English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Marks of use: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/); the bands are our own grouping of its ranks.