Comments for the name Ceinwen

This name does live up to part of it's meaning: lovely!

Ceinwen is pronounced CAIN-wen.

In South Wales Ceinwen is pronounced KINE-WEN, (in N.Wales, it is pronounced CAIN-WEN). However way it is pronounced, we always get complimented on the name. It is my granddaughter's and this name was chosen because of its meaning.

Another meaning of this name is "beautiful/pure and precious gem".

Ceinwen is my given name. I have to put up with people pronouncing and spelling it completely wrong, and so I have to spell or sound it out to people all the time. I pronounce it as KINE-wen, although I think it sounds lovely the other way too.

It's such a rare name here (I'm in Australia), but I wouldn't have it any other way. Over the years I've come to love it as just being a part of who I am. :)

Ceinwyn is the Princess of Powys in Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian saga "The Warlord Chronicles".

Ceinwen is the name of a character in Richard Llewllyn's classic novel, 'How Green Was My Valley'.