Entry № 1845 · Welsh origin

Ceridwen Ceridwen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ keh-RID-wen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Welsh goddess of inspiration (the cauldron of awen)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "welsh goddess of inspiration (the cauldron of awen)".

She brewed a year-and-a-day potion for her ugly son Morfran, but the boy Gwion Bach licked three drops by accident and gained all wisdom — fleeing through shape-shifts until he was swallowed by Ceridwen and reborn as Taliesin, the greatest bard in Welsh tradition.

Welsh goddess-witch of inspiration. Keeper of the cauldron from which Taliesin the bard was reborn.

The name in its native script.

Ceridwen
Transliteration
Ceridwen
Pronunciation
/ kəˈrɪd.wɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ceridwen stands.

Ceridwen 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.

Ceridwens before her.

Real people
Ceridwen
Welsh given name.
In fiction
Ceridwen
Hanes Taliesin.

Names connected to Ceridwen.

The number behind Ceridwen.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ceridwen reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.