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Two Welsh name-sightings..
A two-year-old Bronwen in the paper meeting Prince Charles. My lab instructor named Myfanwy (nicknamed 'Myf').
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I love Bronwen, but I'd probably wouldn't use it. It's very pretty though and I'm glad to see it used. Myfanwy is cool too. Again, I wouldn't use it, but most Welsh names are GPs for me.
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I've always loved Bronwen (but not the inauthentic spelling Bronwyn).
Myfanwy is lovely.
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Myfanwy is on my PNL!
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Yay! Myfanwy is so delicious. It's great to see it in real life. Nn Myf is adorable.Bronwen is terrific too. Here in the U.S. everyone thinks to be a girl's name it has to be spelled Bronwyn. Again, very nice to see the Bronwen spelling on a real person.Any Angharads on the horizon?
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My best friend is named Angharad, actually..Angharad Mair.
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You can't tell right now, but I'm clapping with my feet. :-D
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I hate Bronwen with seething passion. It`s too bumbly and masculine for a girl. Myfanwy sounds like a name found on an acid trip.
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BronwenI respect your opinion on Bronwen. There are names that no matter how much people want me to like them, I just can't. I do get that.But I can't help but try with Bronwen, just in case. Have you ever read / seen a book / movie, "How Green was My Valley?" Apart from being a wonderful story, it was my introduction to Welsh names. There is a character named Bronwen that is decidedly feminine in it. (Hearing them said with a Welsh accent might help to acquire a taste for them.)If you read my posts here generally you know that I am not a fan of masculine names on girls -- at all. But Bronwen, for all it's hard edges, is traditionally feminine. There is a roundness, an Earthy quality to her; a still-waters-run-deep attitude. It's an acquired taste to be sure, but one worth the effort. Just a thought.(I won't try to interest you in Myfanwy. She's definitely not for everyone.)

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It`s not so much that it`s masculine, per se,but that I picture a girl with the name as being kind of like the snobby girl in class who tries hard to be pretty,but ends up in too-small, stained hand-me-down capris, and becomes angry because people hate her behind her back, or in front of her. Y`know? It`s just so much like Bruno or Hubert, like Lex Luther`s assistant in the first superman movie.
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Awesome!I love Myfanwy, and I like Myf as a nn. Bronwen is just alright, but very nice to see at least.
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Love Bronwen. Myfanwy is a GP
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