So I’ve been loving Cornish names ever since my cousins were born, they were named after two Cornish villages. Cornwall is one of my favourite places to visit, and I have been to some of the villages these names derive from which makes me love them even more!!
Which of these are your favourites and what middles would you put them with?
girl’s:
Aswen - patron saint of sweethearts
[name_f]Briallen[/name_f] - ‘primrose’
Delen - ‘petal’
[name_f]Demelza[/name_f] - place name, ‘Maeldaf’s fort’
Ebrel - ‘[name_f]April[/name_f]’
[name_f]Elowen[/name_f] - ‘[name_u]Elm[/name_u] tree’
[name_f]Elys[/name_f] - Cornish form of [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]
[name_f]Emblyn[/name_f] - Cornish form of [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f]
[name_u]Endellion[/name_u] - place name , Anglicised form of [name_f]Endelyn[/name_f]
[name_f]Endelyn[/name_f] - [name_m]Saint[/name_m]’s name
[name_f]Eseld[/name_f] - Cornish form of [name_f]Isolde[/name_f]
[name_u]Issey[/name_u] - [name_m]Saint[/name_m] and place name
[name_m]Kelyn[/name_m] - ‘holly’
[name_f]Kerensa[/name_f] - ‘love’
[name_u]Loveday[/name_u] - traditionally bestowed to children born on loveday
[name_f]Lowena[/name_f] - ‘joy’
[name_f]Mabyn[/name_f] - [name_m]Saint[/name_m] and place name
[name_f]Merryn[/name_f] - ‘born of the sea’
Morwen - saint name
[name_f]Morwenna[/name_f] - saint name
[name_u]Rosen[/name_u] - ‘rose’
[name_f]Wenna[/name_f] - ‘white, fair, blessed’
boy’s:
Arthyen - ‘bear’ or ‘born’
Austol - [name_m]Saint[/name_m] name (St [name_m]Austell[/name_m] - place name)
[name_u]Brae[/name_u] - ‘hill’ or ‘borderland’
[name_u]Carey[/name_u] - ‘the beloved one’
Clemo - Cornish variant of [name_f]Clemence[/name_f]
[name_m]Conan[/name_m] - [name_m]Saint[/name_m] name
[name_m]Denzel[/name_m] - Place name
Edern - ‘[name_f]Eternal[/name_f]’
[name_m]Jago[/name_m] - Cornish form of [name_u]James[/name_u]
[name_u]Jori[/name_u]- Cornish form of [name_u]George[/name_u]
[name_m]Jowan[/name_m] - Cornish form of [name_m]John[/name_m]
Kenver - ‘great chief’
[name_m]Kitto[/name_m] - Cornish diminutive of [name_m]Christopher[/name_m]
Maban - ‘boy’
Massen - Cornish form of [name_m]Macsen[/name_m]
[name_m]Pasco[/name_m] - [name_f]Easter[/name_f]
[name_u]Penrose[/name_u] - ‘the end’ or ‘the top’
[name_m]Perran[/name_m] - [name_m]Saint[/name_m] name
[name_m]Piran[/name_m] - [name_m]Saint[/name_m] name (from Irish [name_m]Ciaran[/name_m], ‘little dark one’)
Rowse - ‘from the heathland’
[name_m]Ruan[/name_m] - [name_m]Saint[/name_m] name
[name_m]Santo[/name_m] - Cornish diminutive of [name_m]Alexander[/name_m]
[name_u]Taran[/name_u] - ‘thunder’
Tremain - ‘stone settlement’
[name_u]Tristan[/name_u] - from the legend of [name_u]Tristan[/name_u], ‘the noisy one’
[name_u]Zennor[/name_u] - place and [name_m]Saint[/name_m] name (the mermaid of [name_u]Zennor[/name_u] legend)
[name_f]My[/name_f] faves with middle name ideas…
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