Entry № 7368 · Welsh origin

Nest Nest — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Medieval Welsh princess"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "medieval welsh princess".

Nest is the medieval Welsh form of Agnes — meaning "pure." Princess Nest ferch Rhys (c. 1085-1136), called the "Helen of Wales," was the famously beautiful daughter of the last king of Deheubarth — through her descendants run the FitzGerald dynasty and many Welsh-Norman royal lines.

Nest is rare but iconic in Welsh history.

The Helen of Wales. The medieval Welsh princess.

The name in its native script.

Nest
Transliteration
Nest
Pronunciation
/ nɛst /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nest stands.

Nest 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.

Nests before her.

Real people
Princess Nest ferch Rhys
The Helen of Wales.
c. 1085 – 1136
In fiction
Nesta Archeron
Heroine of A Court of Thorns and Roses.
Sarah J. Maas

Names connected to Nest.

The number behind Nest.

4

The Builder

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