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Blodwen Blodwen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BLOD-wen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"White flower"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "white flower".

Blodwen is one of the Welsh feminine names — central to traditional Welsh cultural heritage.

White flower (Welsh).

The name in its native script.

Blodwen
Transliteration
Blodwen
Pronunciation
/ ˈblɒd.wɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Blodwen stands.

Blodwen 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.

Blodwens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Blodwen
First Welsh-language opera 1878 + set in Wales 1402 + Owain Glyndŵr revolt.
Blodwen opera

Names connected to Blodwen.

The number behind Blodwen.

3

The Communicator

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