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Arianwen Arianwen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ar-YAN-wen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Silver-white (Welsh + Saint Arianwen)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "silver-white (welsh + saint arianwen)".

Arianwen is one of the Welsh feminine names — central to traditional Welsh + Celtic Christian heritage.

Silver-white (Welsh + Saint Arianwen).

The name in its native script.

Arianwen
Transliteration
Arianwen
Pronunciation
/ ɑːriˈæn.wɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Arianwen stands.

Arianwen 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.

Arianwens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Arianwen / Arianrhod
Saint Arianwen daughter of Brychan Brycheiniog + Cognatio Brychan ~12th-century + Welsh goddess Arianrhod silver-wheel in Mabinogion + Fourth Branch Math fab Mathonwy + Caer Arianrhod Corona Borealis.
Mabinogion + Welsh hagiography

Names connected to Arianwen.

The number behind Arianwen.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arianwen reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.