• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: “holy silver; white silver.”
• Gender: feminine
• Pronounciation: (AH-ree-AHN-wen)

The name is composed of the Welsh elements, arian (silver) but in modern Welsh has taken on the meaning of “cash; money; finances; valuables,” and gwen (white, holy) and gwyn (white, holy).

This is recorded as the name of an 5th-century Welsh saint, one of the daughters of St. Brychan.

The name is borne by Australian actress, Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood (b.1987).

Sources

• https://geiriadur.uwtsd.ac.uk/
• http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/articles/brychild.html
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18118088