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: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCBlancheEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
13thCBlenchEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
16thCBallcheEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCBlachEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCBlacheEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCBlachesEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCBlanchEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCBlanchEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
16thCBlanchEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCBlancheEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCBlancheEnglishNames found in Minchinhampton, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1566-1600
16thCBlancheEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCBlancheEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCBlanseEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCBlauncesEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCBlauncheEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCBlawncheEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
17thCBlanchEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCBlancheFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
14thCBlanchaOccitanNames from Périgueux, 1339-1340
14thCBlanchenormalized FrenchLate Period French Feminine Names
15thCBlancheFrenchFeminine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
15thCBlanchenormalized FrenchLate Period French Feminine Names
16thCBlancaLanguedocianLate Period Feminine Names from the South of France
16thCBlanchenormalized FrenchLate Period French Feminine Names

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCBiancaItalianFourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names
14thCBlanchaLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
14thCBlancthLatinNames from the Chronicon Spilimbergense
15thCBiancaItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCBianchettaYItalianFeminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427
15thCBianchinaYItalianFeminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427
15thCBianciaItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
17thCBiancaItalianNames from Sixteenth Century Venice

Culture: Russian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCBlankaRussianA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (2nd ed.)
15thCBlausaRussianA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (2nd ed.)

Culture: Spanish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCBlancaSpanishSpanish Names from the Late 15th Century
16thCBlanquaCatalanCatalan Names from the 1510 census of Valencia
16thCBlanquinaYCatalanCatalan Names from the 1510 census of Valencia

Culture: Swedish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCBlanchaLatinSwedish Feminine Given Names from SMP
14thCBlancheSwedishSwedish Feminine Given Names from SMP
14thCBlanzSwedishSwedish Feminine Given Names from SMP

Culture: Swiss

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thC,15thCBlanchaLatin14th-15th C Given Names in Latin from Switzerland