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
13thCSilvesterLatinNames from 13th Century Northumberland
16thCSilvesterEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCSilvesterEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCSilvesterEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCSilvesterEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCSevestreFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCSalvestroItalianNames from Arezzo, Italy, 1386-1528
15thCSilvestroItalianFifteenth Century Venetian Masculine Names
16thCSilvestroItalianNames from Arezzo, Italy, 1386-1528

Culture: Portuguese

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCSillvestrePortuguesePortuguese Names from Lisbon, 1565
16thCSilvestrePortuguesePortuguese Names from Lisbon, 1565

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCSiluesterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue