At a Glance
- Meaning
- Fair and generous
- Origin
- Breton
- Gender
- Girl
- Pronunciation
- gwen-ah-EL
Gwenaëlle is a Breton girl's name meaning “fair and generous”. It appears in our list of 175+ Celtic Baby Girl Names That Feel Ancient and Enchanting.
Meaning & Origin of Gwenaëlle
Meaning: Fair and generous.
Origin: Breton.
A common claim: White angel Actually: Gwenaëlle is often glossed as 'white angel,' but its second part doesn't come from a word for angel — it's an old Breton word for 'generous,' so the name more accurately means something like 'fair and generous.'
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Gwenaëlle
gwen-ah-ELIPA /ɡwɛnaˈɛl/
Popularity of Gwenaëlle
Gwenaëlle doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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