Brythonic female names

The Brythonic peoples of Britain in our period were the remnants of the Romano-British inhabitants who had been slowly pushed to the western and northern fringes of the island by the arrival of the various Germanic peoples (Saxons, Jutes, Angles etc).

By the start of our period, in the late eighth century, the various Brythonic nations had been geographically separated from one another with Saxon kingdoms cutting off Wales, Cornwall and the northern Brythonic kingdoms off from one another. This separation began to manifest in language as well as culture, as seen by naming practices.

Names appearing here are taken largely from the Medieval Name Archive which has several well-researched articles on the subject. I have included only the Brythonic versions, not the Latin in which most of these were recorded.

A note on Brythonic last names: As with their Viking counterparts, most Brythons would have a given name and then either a list of their fathers using the word 'ap' to mean 'son of' (i.e Llewelyn ap Cyny ap Rhodri) or a suffix with some sort of descriptor (i.e Rhodri Mawr 'The Mighty').

Largely taken from the Medieval Name Archive (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/pceltic.shtml), list is not exhaustive.

Cornish Names

Aedoc – Anauprost – Arganteilin – Ceinguled – Fuandrec - Gloiucen – Gloiumed – Guenbrith – Guencen – Guencenedl – Guenguiu – Guenmon – Ilcum – Iudprost – Medguistl – Meduil – Moruith – Oncenedl – Oncum – Onguen – Ourcen – Ourdilic – Proscen – Prosguetel – Rum – Tanguistl –

Breton Names

Beladore – Berthildis – Drilego – Herannuen – Melita – Prostlon – Rimoete –

Early Northern Brythonic Names

Ystradwel - Gwawl - Gwawr - Nyfain - Gwrygon Goddau - Efrddyl - Ceindrech - Enynny - Modron - Morfudd - Den(y)w - Rhieinfellt - Languoreth - Angharad - Gwladus - Dwywai - Onnen Greg -