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Hafren Hafren — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAH-vren /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"River Severn / Sabrina (Welsh + Milton Comus)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "river severn / sabrina (welsh + milton comus)".

Hafren is from the Welsh Hafren — Welsh name for River Severn (longest river in Great Britain). Hafren is one of the Welsh feminine names — central to traditional Welsh + Celtic mythological heritage.

River Severn / Sabrina (Welsh).

The name in its native script.

Hafren
Transliteration
Hafren
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɑːv.rɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hafren stands.

Hafren 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.

Hafrens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hafren / Sabrina
Welsh name for River Severn longest in Great Britain + Habren / Sabrina legendary daughter of King Locrinus + drowned in River Severn + Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae ~1136 + Milton's Comus 1634.
Geoffrey of Monmouth + Milton

Names connected to Hafren.

The number behind Hafren.

7

The Seeker

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