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
12thCRichildEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
12thCRikildaLatinFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
13thCRichilEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
13thCRichildEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
13thCRikildEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
13thCRikildeEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
13thCRychyldEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
13thCRykeldEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
14thCRichill'EnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCRichaudeFrenchFeminine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCRicheutFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
14thCRicheutFrenchFeminine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde