Entry № 2698 · Welsh origin

Dwynwen Dwynwen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DOO-in-wen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Welsh patron saint of lovers (St Dwynwen's Day Jan 25)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "welsh patron saint of lovers (st dwynwen's day jan 25)".

Dwynwen in modern Welsh naming — has experienced significant revival in 21st-century Wales amid broader Welsh cultural revival movement.

and St Dwynwen's Day.

Welsh patron saint of lovers.

The name in its native script.

Dwynwen
Transliteration
Dwynwen
Pronunciation
/ ˈduː.ɪn.wɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dwynwen stands.

Dwynwen 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.

Dwynwens before her.

Real people
Saint Dwynwen
Welsh patron saint of lovers.
5th c.
In fiction
Dwynwen
Welsh love saint + Llanddwyn Island.

Names connected to Dwynwen.

The number behind Dwynwen.

9

The Giver

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