Entry № 10426 · Welsh origin

Tegwen Tegwen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEG-wen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Fair and beautiful"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Welsh)

A name that means "fair and beautiful".

Tegwen is widely used in modern Wales.

Fair and beautiful. The Welsh blessed beauty.

The name in its native script.

Tegwen
Transliteration
Tegwen
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɛɡ.wɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tegwen stands.

Tegwen 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.

Tegwens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tegwen
Common in Welsh fiction.

Names connected to Tegwen.

The number behind Tegwen.

2

The Peacemaker

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