Submitted Name Save Gender Masculine Usage English, Welsh Mythology Pronounced Pron. PEN Edit Status Status Contributor Contrib.aja3 on 7/30/2007 Last Editor EditorEvil on 7/10/2018 [revision history] Meaning & History Means "head, top" in Welsh. This was the name of two characters in Welsh legend. It can also come from the English surname which was from a place name meaning "hill" in Old English.