Tanwen
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- TAN-wen
- Origin
- Welsh
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Tanwen is a girls' name of Welsh origin, meaning “white fire”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Tanwen mean?
Welsh: from tan 'fire' and gwen 'white, blessed'
“white fire”
Is Tanwen a girl's or a boy's name?
Tanwen 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 Tanwen in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 333% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Tanwen, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2011, with 6 girls.
Half of all the girls named Tanwen in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Tanwen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
Names like Tanwen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Yumna, Suki, Kiki, Rumi, Minha, Eloise, Eden, Anwen, Tori, Yuna, Mika, Miri
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, “Tanwen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tanwen, updated 20 October 2026.