Entry № 4177 · Welsh origin

Heledd Heledd — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEH-ledh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Salt; from old Welsh poem"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "salt; from old welsh poem".

Heledd is the heroine of the 9th-century Welsh poem Canu Heledd — the lament of Heledd, princess of Powys, after the death of her brother Cynddylan and the destruction of his hall.

Heledd is rare even in Wales but distinctive.

The princess of Powys. The 9th-century lament.

The name in its native script.

Heledd
Transliteration
Heledd
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛl.ɛð /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Heledd stands.

Heledd 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.

Heledds before her.

Real people
Heledd Pritchard
Welsh journalist.
In fiction
Heledd
Heroine of Canu Heledd.
9th-century Welsh poem

Names connected to Heledd.

The number behind Heledd.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Heledd reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.