Meinir is from the Welsh Meinir — tall slim maiden, graceful young woman + foundational from Welsh main (slim/slender). A modern American baby name in the broader Welsh-Celtic heritage aesthetic. Meinir is one of the foundational Welsh feminine names — central to traditional Welsh cultural heritage. The foundational name connects to foundational Meinir folk tale — foundational Welsh legend of foundational bride who hid from her bridegroom Rhys on their wedding day + foundational was found years later as foundational tree-trunk skeleton + foundational central to foundational Welsh folklore + foundational Cwm Glas (Snowdonia) + foundational Nant Gwynant foundational Welsh folkloric heritage. Notable bearer: Meinir Gwilym (born 1983) foundational Welsh singer-songwriter + foundational pioneering Welsh-language pop music + foundational Sgwarnogod Bach Bobi. Foundational subject of foundational pan-Welsh Celtic naming heritage spanning foundational Meinir + Meinwen + Mererid + Manon. Foundational subject of foundational Welsh language post-1967 revival heritage + foundational Conradh na Gymraeg + Eisteddfod cultural festival heritage. Foundational Welsh feminine name reflecting Celtic Indigenous heritage.
Featured throughout Welsh heritage.
Meinir reduces to five.