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Comments and insights on the name Angharad

Unusual name, not very girly-sounding.
It is pronounced an-HAR-ad.

I live in North Wales and all the Angharads I know pronounce it ahnG-HArad.

Personal experiences with the name Angharad

I would have used this name for a daughter but only had boys.

Nicknames for Angharad

Meanings and history of the name Angharad

Name is Welsh, means 'much-loved'; Angharad was the mother of Geraldus Cambrensis.

Famous real-life people named Angharad

Angharad Rees (b.1949), Actress
Angharad Davis, musicologist
Angharad Drake, musician

Angharad in song, story & screen

Favourite sister of the protagonist in "How Green Was My Valley".

It also appeared in a fiction story I read where the father accepted his daughter's suitor because he could pronounce Angharad.

Angharad Crewe, nicknamed Harry, main character in The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley