Entry № 1658 · Welsh origin

Bronwyn Bronwyn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BRON-win /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Fair breast, white-bosomed"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Welsh)

A name that means "fair breast, white-bosomed".

Bronwyn is a Welsh name from bron (breast) and gwyn (white, fair, blessed) — meaning "fair-breasted" or "white-bosomed." The Welsh spelling Bronwen (with E) is the traditional female form; Bronwyn (with Y) is the more common Anglicised spelling.

In Welsh mythology, Branwen (a related but distinct name) is one of the central figures of the medieval Welsh tale The Mabinogion — a princess whose marriage to the Irish king causes a war between Ireland and Wales.

Fair-breasted. A Welsh princess of the Mabinogion.

The name in its native script.

Bronwen
Transliteration
Bronwen
Pronunciation
/ ˈbrɒn.wɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bronwyn stands.

Bronwyn 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.

Bronwyns before her.

Real people
Bronwyn Bishop
Australian politician.
born 1942
In fiction
Branwen
Princess of the medieval Welsh Mabinogion.
Medieval Welsh

Names connected to Bronwyn.

The number behind Bronwyn.

3

The Communicator

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