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Rhianon Rhianon — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ree-AN-on /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Great queen (Welsh + Mabinogi sovereignty goddess)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "great queen (welsh + mabinogi sovereignty goddess)".

Rhianon is from the Welsh Rhianon — variant of Rhiannon from Proto-Celtic Rīgantonā (Great Queen). Rhianon is one of the Welsh feminine names — central to traditional Welsh mythological heritage. Welsh feminine name reflecting Celtic mythological heritage.

Great queen (Welsh).

The name in its native script.

Rhianon
Transliteration
Rhianon
Pronunciation
/ riːˈæ.nɒn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rhianon stands.

Rhianon 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.

Rhianons before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rhiannon
Welsh sovereignty goddess + wife of Pwyll + mother of Pryderi + Four Branches of the Mabinogi.
Mabinogi

Names connected to Rhianon.

The number behind Rhianon.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rhianon reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.