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
16thCGermaineEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCGermaneEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCJermanEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCJermanEnglishNames of Soldiers from Kent, 1595
16thCJermanusEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
17thCGarmayneEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCGermanEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCGermainFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
15thCGermainFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
16thCGermainFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCGermainFrenchNames from Sixteenth Century Picardy
16thCGermanFrenchNames from Artois, 1601

Culture: German

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCGermanGermanGerman Names from 1495

Culture: Swiss

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
12thCGermanusLatin12th Century Swiss Names in Latin