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
14thCEgidiusLatinMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCGeliisDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCGeliisDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCGelisDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCGelysDutchMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCGielijsDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCGielisDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCGielisDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCGielkenYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCGilkenYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCGilkinYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCGilliisDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCGillijsDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCGillisDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCGillisDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCGillotDutchDutch Names 1393-96
15thCGelisDutch15th Century Dutch Names
15thCGillesDutch15th Century Dutch Names
15thCGillisDutch15th Century Dutch Names
15thCGillsDutch15th Century Dutch Names
16thCAegidiusLatinNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCGillesDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCGillisDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCGillisDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCGilesEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCEgediusEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCGeilesEnglishName Distribution in King's Stanley Marriages: 1573-1600
16thCGilesEnglishNames found in the Berkeley Hundred Court Rolls
16thCGilesEnglishName Distribution in King's Stanley Marriages: 1573-1600
16thCGilesEnglishNames found in Rangeworthy Bishops, Glouchestershire, Registers 1575-1600
16thCGilesEnglishNames found in Minchinhampton, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1566-1600
16thCGilesEnglishNames found in Quedgeley, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1559-1600
16thCGilesEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCGilesEnglishNames of Members of the Frobisher Voyages, 1576-1578
16thCGilesEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCGyelesEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCGylesEnglishNames found in Cam, Glouchestershire, Marriage Registers 1569-1600
16thCGylesEnglishNames found in Minchinhampton, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1566-1600
16thCGylesEnglishNames found in Quedgeley, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1559-1600
16thCGylesEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCGylesEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCGylysEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
17thCGilesEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCGylesEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCGileFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCGileFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCGilesFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCGilesFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCGiletYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCGiletYFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCGillesFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCGillesFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCGillotYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCGilonYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCGilonsYFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCGilotYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
14thCGilleFrenchFrench Names from Abbeville, 1388
15thCGilesFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCGiletYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCGillesFrenchNames from Choisy, France, 1475-1478
15thCGillesFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCGillesFrenchNames from Paris, 1408-1449
15thCGilletYFrenchNames from Choisy, France, 1475-1478
15thCGilletYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCGillotYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCGilotYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
16thCGilesFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
16thCGilleFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCGillesFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCGillesFrenchSixteenth Century Norman Names
16thCGillesDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCGillisDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585

Culture: German

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCEgidiusLatinMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
15thCÄgidiusGermanLate Period German Masculine Given Names
15thCEgidiusGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCEgidiusLatinMedieval German Given Names from Silesia

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCGiliolusYLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
14thCGiliusLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
14thCGillinusYLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
14thCGilliolusYLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
14thCGilliusLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
14thCZilioItalianFourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names
15thCEgidioItalianItalian Men's Names in Rome, 1473-1484
15thCGilioItalianItalian Men's Names in Rome, 1473-1484
15thCGilioItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCGelisScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCGylysScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
16thCGeilisScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCGelisScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCGelisScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCGelleisScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCGilleisScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCJeillesScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue

Culture: Spanish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCGilSpanishLeonese Men's Names from 1313
15thCGilCatalanCatalan Names from 15th-Century Barcelona
16thCGilCatalanCatalan Names from the 1510 census of Valencia