Gwalchmei as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Gwalchmei

What is the meaning of the name Gwalchmei ?

The baby name Gwalchmei is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈɡwalχmaɪ/ (approx. GWAHLKH-my).

Gwalchmei is Welsh in Origin.

Gwalchmei is a Welsh given name built from gwalch “hawk” and an element mei that is usually taken as “May,” yielding the popular interpretation “hawk of May,” though some scholars connect mei with mae/maes “field,” giving “field hawk.” The name belongs to Arthurian tradition: Gwalchmei ap Gwyar appears in the tale Culhwch and Olwen and the Welsh Triads as a valiant, courteous warrior, later equated with the knight known in English as Gawain.

Through medieval transmission the name developed numerous variants: Middle Welsh Gwalchmai, Latinized as Gualguanus or Walwen by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Old French Gauvain, Middle English/Scots Gawain, German Gawan, Dutch Walewein, Italian Galvano, Spanish Galván, and Portuguese Galvão. In Wales it survives as a learned, rare heritage name and as a toponym (the Anglesey village Gwalchmai, linked to the 12th‑century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr).

⚙ Gwalchmei is absent from every birth registry and name dataset we follow. It's the kind of name that tends to be rare, regional, or newly made up. However you look at it, very few people share it.