Heulwen
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAYL-wen
- Origin
- Welsh
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Heulwen is a girls' name of Welsh origin, meaning “sunshine”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Heulwen mean?
Welsh: from haul 'sun' and gwen 'white, blessed'
“sunshine”
Is Heulwen a girl's or a boy's name?
Heulwen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Heulwen in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Heulwen, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1996, with 5 girls.
2025 had more girls named Heulwen than any year since 2011.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Heulwen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
| 1996 | 5 | #2,815 |
Names like Heulwen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kiki, Suki, Rumi, Yumna, Yuna, Minha, Miri, Dakota, Arzoi, Hezlin, Mika, Akosua
Names related to Heulwen
More Welsh names
Dylan, Owen, Winnie, Maddox, Morgan, Idris, Reese, Bowen, Griffin, Rhys, Gavin, Reece, Nia, Seren, Gwendolyn, Winifred
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Heulwen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/heulwen, updated 20 October 2026.