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Heddwyn (M)>

Heddwyn (male)

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Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

Modern Welsh "holy peace".

This name was coined in honour of the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans whose bardic name was Hedd Wyn. He was killed in the First World War and was posthumously awarded the bardic chair in the 1917 National Eisteddfod.