Gwladys

Today is Passover and so hag same'ah to all my Jewish friends.

Also interstingly it is also the feast day of St Gwladys, whose main church is at Bargoed where Doris Hare (who played Mabel, Stan Butler's mum, in On the Buses) was born.

I've liked the name Gwladys ever since I came across it in a Jeeves and Wooster story about an artist called Gwladys Pendleton or Pendlebury, with whom Bertie falls in love, and of course it all comes to naught.
I remember Jeeves being very dismissive of the name, saying that it was not a particularly attractive one, being on a par with Kathryn and Ethyl, all of which came about because of the writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

I believe that Jeeves had a thing about the semi-vowels w and y.

Mind you, I've always liked Welsh girls' names like Rhiannon, Morwenna, Branwen, Angharad, and of course Myfanwy (Nye Bevan's beloved youngest sister).