Usages: WelshMeaning: Old Welsh name derived from brych "speckled, freckled" combined with a diminutive suffix. Brychan Brycheiniog is a Welsh folk hero who gave his name to Brecon in mid-Wales. He was reputedly an Irishman by birth and is said to have fathered 36 saints. According to K.M. Sheard, "As a figure, he may be a complete invention, created to explain the name of Breconshire; it may also be no coincidence that brych shares the same root as Welsh brith - Celtic *mrixto "variegated" and "painted", from which Britannia itself derives. He may well represent a Celtic deity himself too; many - if not most - of his saintly offspring have a distinct aura of the goddess or god about them."http://www.welshboysnames.co.uk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brychan https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Brychan/+ Sheard, K. M. (2011). 'Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names', p. 111.(Information from name #234936 originally submitted by user LMS)
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Meaning: Old Welsh name derived from brych "speckled, freckled" combined with a diminutive suffix. Brychan Brycheiniog is a Welsh folk hero who gave his name to Brecon in mid-Wales. He was reputedly an Irishman by birth and is said to have fathered 36 saints. According to K.M. Sheard, "As a figure, he may be a complete invention, created to explain the name of Breconshire; it may also be no coincidence that brych shares the same root as Welsh brith - Celtic *mrixto "variegated" and "painted", from which Britannia itself derives. He may well represent a Celtic deity himself too; many - if not most - of his saintly offspring have a distinct aura of the goddess or god about them."
http://www.welshboysnames.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brychan
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Brychan/+
Sheard, K. M. (2011). 'Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names', p. 111.
(Information from name #234936 originally submitted by user LMS)