
The first King of Wales was called Hywel Dda, or "Howell The Good". See article in Wikipedia.
Howell Name Meaning
Welsh: from the personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages in particular in honour of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king.
English: habitational name from Howell in Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English hugol ‘mound’, ‘hillock’ or hune ‘hoarhound’.