Entry № 9757 · Welsh origin

Sioned Sioned — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHON-ed /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Welsh Janet (God is gracious)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "welsh janet (god is gracious)".

Sioned is the Welsh form of Janet — itself a diminutive of Jane, from the Hebrew Yochanan meaning "God is gracious."

Sioned is widely used in Wales.

God is gracious. The Welsh Janet.

The name in its native script.

Sioned
Transliteration
Sioned
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɒn.ɛd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sioned stands.

Sioned 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.

Sioneds before her.

Real people
Sioned Davies
Welsh scholar, Mabinogion translator.
born 1955
In fiction
Sioned
Common in Welsh fiction.

Names connected to Sioned.

The number behind Sioned.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sioned reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.