Given name
Yorath
“a handsome lord”
Yorath is used as a given name. One Welsh interpretation is “a handsome lord.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Welsh interpretation is “a handsome lord.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Welsh.
The story
Yorath is a variant of Iorwerth. The history of Iorwerth gives this family its wider story. Iorwerth appears in the Mabinogi, a medieval collection of Welsh legends.
Explained through its name family
Yorath’s family of names
Yorath has a related form in Iorwerth. Yorath is an English adaptation of Iorwerth. Yorath has a related form in Yorathe.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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