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Meaning & History
Means "token of the egg", and in effect "mundane egg", from Welsh creir "a token, jewel, sacred object" and wy "egg". In the Mabinogion, a collection of tales from Welsh myth, she was a daughter of CERIDWEN and one of the three most beautiful maids of the Isle of Britain. This was also the name of a 6th-century Breton saint from Wales.