The Llewelyn Family Name

Llewelyn sits within the Llewellyn family of names, which has Welsh roots. It grew out of a personal name: “From the personal name Llywelyn”.

A variant of Llewellyn

Without the “l” of Llewellyn, Llewelyn is a simpler written form of the same name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Flewelling and Lewelling.

Heraldry and the Llewelyn name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Llewelyn, so the heraldry linked to Llewellyn is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Want more than a summary? See the Llewelyn family name pack.