Which one do you prefer? [name]Do[/name] you think they are better as first or middle names?
I like [name]Branwen[/name] more for the meaning, but I think they’re both middle names as they feel a bit masculine to me.
[name]Anwen[/name] 
But of your choices, [name]Bronwen[/name]. [name]Bran[/name] is a cereal to me, and [name]Branwen[/name] sounds a little whiny…like a bratty [name]Anwen[/name].
First names if you’re daring or live in Great [name]Britain[/name], middle if you’re a safe non-[name]Briton[/name].
[name]Branwen[/name] for me from your choices.
Depending where you are based … You could also try [name]Arianwen[/name] , Rhoswen or Elwen.
I like [name]Bronwen[/name] better maybe because I know someone with the same and she is awesome.
Like the other posters though, I prefer some other -wen names. Like [name]Rhonwen[/name]!
I prefer [name]Branwen[/name] over [name]Bronwen[/name], I just think the meaning of [name]Branwen[/name] is a bit more special (white crow as opposed to white-breasted).
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I really like [name]Branwen[/name] and don’t hear it as masculine particularly? No more than [name]Vivien[/name] or [name]Imogen[/name], it’s just not frilly.
Not as fond of [name]Bronwen[/name]. I do like [name]Gwyneira[/name] and just simple little [name]Gwen[/name].
I would use them as a first name if I could, but with our last initial B names are probably best pushed to the middle. [name]Branwen[/name] is one I quite like, along with [name]Bryony[/name].
Definitely [name]Bronwen[/name]. I also like it spelled [name]Bronwyn[/name]. The meaning doesn’t really matter—a lot of people don’t even know or care about the meaning of their own name.
I love love [name]LOVE[/name] [name]Branwen[/name]! Though [name]Bronwen[/name] is a close second!
I much prefer [name]Bronwen[/name] (this spelling).
I care a lot more about sound than meaning, personally, and I agree with the poster above who said [name]Branwen[/name] sounds a bit whiny. Actually, to me it sounds like ‘[name]Bronwen[/name]’ mispronounced with a whine, but I think that’s because I’m a lot more used to hearing [name]Bronwen[/name].
I prefer [name]Anwen[/name] to either of them, though.
Prefer [name]Branwen[/name] for looks and meaning. Also saw [name]Bryony[/name], [name]Gwyneira[/name] and [name]Arianwen[/name] mentioned, some of my other favs. Also, maybe it’s because I’m in the Midwest but I don’t understand the bran cereal thing, as [name]Branwen[/name] is “brahn-wen” and bran is “brann.”
Neither sounds all that NY to me lol. [name]Branwen[/name] isn’t what I would consider a kreative spelling, consider it appears in Welsh mythological anthologies that date from 1100-1490 CE.
The stories of the Mabinogion appear in either or both of two medieval Welsh manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch or Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, written circa 1350, and the Red Book of Hergest or Llyfr Coch Hergest, written about 1382–1410, though texts or fragments of some of the tales have been preserved in earlier 13th century and later manuscripts. Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing manuscripts, but disagree over just how much older. […]
[name]Branwen[/name] ferch Llŷr ([name]Branwen[/name], Daughter of Llŷr) is mostly about [name]Branwen[/name]'s marriage to the [name]King[/name] of [name]Ireland[/name]. Pryderi appears but does not play a major part.
I would say it compares, at least, favourably historically to names invented by [name]Shakespeare[/name] in the Elizabethan era?
I love [name]Bronwen[/name]. My DS was going to be [name]Bronwen[/name] [name]Clare[/name] if he had been a girl. By the time I had my girls the name just didn’t seem right for either of them.
Now I am kicking myself because I named my dog [name]Bronson[/name] and it’s too similar to use [name]Bronwen[/name] on a new girl.
I always fancied the nn [name]Bron[/name] or Broni and [name]Winnie[/name] is cute too.
[name]Love[/name] [name]Branwen[/name]! The meaning is really nice and I love the sound of it. [name]Bronwen[/name] actually sounds more masculine to me than [name]Branwen[/name] so I really don’t get it when people say [name]Branwen[/name] sounds more masculine.