This database is an ongoing project indexing medieval names found in articles in the Medieval Names Archive and elsewhere. Any citations included here should be verified in the original sources. The pages generated by this database should NOT be used for documentation.

This project is still very much in the early stages. New data are being added on a regular basis, and I'm working on making the formatting look prettier (many thanks to Wenyeva atte grene for some help in that direction). Right now one known issue is that none of the accented characters are displaying correctly. I'm working on it.

Culture: Dutch

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCSanderYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCSanderYDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCSanderusLatinMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCSsanderYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCZanderYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
16thCAlexanderDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCAlexanderDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCAlexanderLatinNames from 13th Century Northumberland
13thCAlexanderLatinGiven Names from Early 13th Century England
13thCSandreYLatinGiven Names from Early 13th Century England
14thCAlexanderEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
14thCAlexanderLatinIndex of Names in the 1381 Suffolk Poll Tax
14thCAlexandrusLatin14th Century Worcestershire Names
14thCAlexandrusLatinYorkshire Given Names from 1379
14thCSandreYLatinIndex of Names in the 1381 Suffolk Poll Tax
16thCAlexYEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCAlexYEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCAlexandeEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCAlexanderEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCAlexanderEnglishNames found in Cam, Glouchestershire, Marriage Registers 1569-1600
16thCAlexanderEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCAlexanderEnglishNames of Members of the Frobisher Voyages, 1576-1578
16thCAlexanderEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCAlexanderEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCAlexanderEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCAlexanderEnglishNames of Soldiers from Kent, 1595
16thCAlexsanderEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCAlixanderEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCAlixanderEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCAllexanderEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCAllysanderEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCAlyxanderEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCElyxanderEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCSanderYEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCSaunderYEnglishNames of Members of the Frobisher Voyages, 1576-1578
16thCSaundersYEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
17thCAlexanderEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCAlexandriusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCSandersYEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCAlexandreFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCAlixandreFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCAlixandreFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
15thCAlixandreFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
16thCAlexandreFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCAlexandreFrenchSixteenth Century Norman Names

Culture: German

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCAlexanderGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
14thCSanderYGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
15thCAlexanderGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCAllexanderGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCAllexanderGermanGerman Names from Nürnberg, 1497
15thCAllexannderGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCSanderYGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCSanderYGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
16thCAlexanderGermanLate Period German Masculine Given Names

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCAlessandroItalianFourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names
14thCAllesanderLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
14thCSandroYItalianNames from Arezzo, Italy, 1386-1528
15thCAlessandroItalianFifteenth Century Venetian Masculine Names
15thCAlessandroItalianItalian Men's Names in Rome, 1473-1484
15thCAlessandroItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCAlessandroItalianNames from Arezzo, Italy, 1386-1528
15thCSandroYItalianNames from Arezzo, Italy, 1386-1528
16thCAlexanderItalianItalian Masculine Given Names from 15th- and 16th-century Viterbo
16thCAlexandroItalianItalian Masculine Given Names from 15th- and 16th-century Viterbo
17thCAlexanderItalianNames from Sixteenth Century Venice

Culture: Portuguese

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCAlexandrePortuguesePortuguese Names from Lisbon, 1565

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCAlexanderScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
14thCAlexanderScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCAlexandirScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCAlysandirScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCAlysonderScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCAlexanderScots15th-Century Scots Names from Dunfermline
15thCAlexanderScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCAlisandyrScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCSandeYScots15th-Century Scots Names from Dunfermline
15thCSandeYScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCAlasterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCAlexanderScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCAlexanderScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCAlexandirScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCAlexandirScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCAllesterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCAllexanderScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCAlyYScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCSandYScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCSandeYScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCSandeYScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCSanderisYScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCSandrisYScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCSandyYScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCSandyYScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCAlexanderScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCAllasterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCAllexanderScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue

Culture: Spanish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCAlexYSpanishSpanish Names from the Late 15th Century
15thCAlexandreSpanishSpanish Names from the Late 15th Century
15thCAlixandreSpanishSpanish Names from the Late 15th Century