Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Welsh.
The story
The name appears in the Mabinogi, a medieval collection of Welsh legends.
Branwen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 42
- 0 boys · 42 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Branwen’s family of names
Branwen has a related form in Bronwyn. Branwen has a related form in Bronwen. Branwen has a related form in Brangwen.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Bronwynvariant
- Bronwenvariant
- Bronwynnvariant
- Branwynvariant
- Bronwynnevariant
- Bronwennevariant
- Bronwennvariant
- Brangwyvariant
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People named Branwen
Characters named Branwen: Branwen (the Mabinogi).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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