Entry № 3925 · Welsh origin

Gwenhwyfar Gwenhwyfar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Fair, white spirit"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "fair, white spirit".

Gwenhwyfar is a name of Welsh origin, the Welsh form of Guinevere, meaning fair, white spirit.

Fair, white spirit — a Welsh name.

The name in its native script.

Gwenhwyfar
Transliteration
Gwenhwyfar
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Gwenhwyfar stands.

Gwenhwyfar 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.

Gwenhwyfars before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gwenhwyfar.

The number behind Gwenhwyfar.

4

The Builder

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