Boy · Welsh
Peredur
Say it: peh-REH-dir
Meaning
Uncertain.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Peredur, hero of the Welsh Arthurian romance
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- The medieval Arthurian romances
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