Idwal as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Idwal

What is the meaning of the name Idwal ?

The baby name Idwal is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced ID-wal.

Idwal is Welsh in Origin.

Idwal is a Welsh masculine name, first recorded in early medieval Welsh genealogical material in Old Welsh spellings such as Iudgual or Iudwal. Its elements are iudd, from Old Welsh iud, lord, prince, and gwal, wall, rampart; in compounds, the consonant of gwal could appear as -gual/-wal under Welsh sound and spelling conventions. The literal sense is therefore lord of the rampart, often modernized as lord of the wall.

The name belongs to north Welsh dynastic tradition: Idwal Foel, tenth-century king of Gwynedd, and Idwal ap Meurig, who died in 997, appear in medieval chronicles and pedigrees. Cwm Idwal in Eryri/Snowdonia preserves it in Welsh topography. Older Brittonic spellings and cognate forms include Iudgual, Iudwal, Judwal, and Judual, the last two more familiar in Breton contexts. Outside Wales it remains rare, with modern use chiefly antiquarian or heritage-based.

⚙ Idwal is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Idwal appears only 4 times in total — found in 3 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.