Entry № 383 · Welsh origin

Alaw Alaw — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AL-ow /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Melody; water-lily"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "melody; water-lily".

Alaw means a melody or tune — and also names the water-lily and a river on Anglesey. It joins music with quiet natural beauty.

Melody; water-lily — a Welsh name.

The name in its native script.

Alaw
Transliteration
Alaw
Pronunciation
/ ˈa.laʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alaw stands.

Alaw does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alaws before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Alaw.

The number behind Alaw.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alaw reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.