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

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15thCDenijsDutch15th Century Dutch Names
16thCDionysDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCDyonisiusLatinGiven Names from Early 13th Century England
14thCDionisLatinIndex of Names in the 1381 Suffolk Poll Tax
14thCDionisiusLatinYorkshire Given Names from 1379
16thCDenisEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCDennisEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCDenysEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCDioniseEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCDionisiusEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
17thCDenysEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCDenysseEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCDionesiusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCDyonisiusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

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13thCDenisYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCDenisFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCDenisardusYLatinMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCDeniseFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCDeniseFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCDenisesFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCDenisosYFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCDenisotYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCDenyseFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCDenysotYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCDyonisiusLatinMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
15thCDenisFrenchNames from Choisy, France, 1475-1478
15thCDenisFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCDenisFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
15thCDenisFrenchNames from Paris, 1408-1449
15thCDenisetYFrenchNames from Choisy, France, 1475-1478
15thCDenisotYFrenchNames from Choisy, France, 1475-1478
15thCDenisotYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCDenisotYFrenchNames from Paris, 1408-1449
15thCDenixostYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
16thCDenisFrenchNames from a 1587 Tax Roll from Provins
16thCDenisFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCDenisFrenchSixteenth Century Norman Names
16thCDenisFrenchNames from Sixteenth Century Picardy
16thCDenisFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
16thCDenysFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600

Culture: German

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCDionysiusGermanLate Period German Masculine Given Names
15thCDenißGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCDionisusGermanGerman Names from 1495

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCDionisioItalianFourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names
16thCDionisioItalianNames from Sixteenth Century Venice
16thCDionisioItalianItalian Masculine Given Names from 15th- and 16th-century Viterbo

Culture: Portuguese

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCDenisPortuguesePortuguese Names from the 16th Century
16thCDenysPortuguesePortuguese Names from the 16th Century
16thCDinisPortuguesePortuguese Names from Lisbon, 1565

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
17thCDionysiusScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue

Culture: Spanish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCDonisSpanishSpanish Names from the Late 15th Century
16thCDionisCatalanCatalan Names from the 1510 census of Valencia