Gwilym: how to pronounce it and what it means

Boys' names

Name and meaning

Welsh form of William

Origin

Borrowed through Anglo-Norman Willame; Germanic ancestral elements include ‘will’ and ‘helmet’.

How to pronounce it

GwilymIPA: /ˈɡwɪlɨ̞m/

Used as the equivalent of: William

Naming equivalents do not always have the same origin.

Sources

Name definitions adapted from Wiktionary via Kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). CC BY-SA 4.0

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