Entry № 2179 · Celtic origin

Creiddylad Creiddylad — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kry-DUH-lahd /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"Welsh Mabinogion princess + Cordelia source"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "welsh mabinogion princess + cordelia source".

Creiddylad is from the Welsh Creiddylad (jewel). Creiddylad is the daughter of Lludd Llaw Eraint in the Mabinogion — the collection of medieval Welsh prose tales (12th-13th c.). Central to Culhwch and Olwen (c. 1100), one of the earliest Arthurian texts. She is the prize fought over by Gwythyr ap Greidawl and Gwyn ap Nudd every May 1st (Calan Mai), representing the seasonal contest between summer and winter. Shakespeare's Cordelia in King Lear is widely considered a anglicization derived from Creiddylad.

Welsh Mabinogion princess + Cordelia source — a Celtic name.

The name in its native script.

Creiddylad
Transliteration
Creiddylad
Pronunciation
/ kraɪˈdʌ.lɑːd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Creiddylad stands.

Creiddylad 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.

Creiddylads before her.

Real people

In fiction
Creiddylad (Mabinogion)
Welsh princess + Cordelia source.
c. 1100

Names connected to Creiddylad.

The number behind Creiddylad.

4

The Builder

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