Entry № 778 · Welsh origin

Anwen Anwen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AN-wen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Very beautiful, very fair"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Welsh)

A name that means "very beautiful, very fair".

Anwen is widely used in modern Wales.

Very fair. The Welsh intensified beauty.

The name in its native script.

Anwen
Transliteration
Anwen
Pronunciation
/ ˈæn.wɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anwen stands.

Anwen 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.

Anwens before her.

Real people
Anwen Hughes
Welsh academic.
In fiction
Anwen
Common in Welsh fiction.

Names connected to Anwen.

The number behind Anwen.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anwen reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.