Entry № 1544 · Welsh origin

Blodeuwedd Blodeuwedd — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bloh-DAI-weth /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Welsh flower-face (woman made of flowers)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "welsh flower-face (woman made of flowers)".

Blodeuwedd (Old Welsh) means "flower face." The Welsh woman conjured from the flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet by the magicians Math and Gwydion — created as a wife for Lleu Llaw Gyffes, whom no woman of any race could marry by his mother Arianrhod's curse. She betrayed Lleu by taking the warrior Gronw Pebr as her lover and plotting Lleu's murder — for which she was punished by being turned into an owl, condemned to fly only at night.

Featured in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion.

Welsh flower-face (woman made of flowers) — a Welsh name.

The name in its native script.

Blodeuwedd
Transliteration
Blodeuwedd
Pronunciation
/ blɒˈdaɪ.wɛð /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Blodeuwedd stands.

Blodeuwedd 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.

Blodeuwedds before her.

Real people
Blodeuwedd
Welsh given name.
In fiction
Blodeuwedd
Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion.

Names connected to Blodeuwedd.

The number behind Blodeuwedd.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Blodeuwedd reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.