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
14thCWalterDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCWolterusLatinMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCWouterDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCWouterDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCWouterkijnYDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCWoutkenYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCWoytkenYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCWoytkinYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
16thCWouterDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCWouterDutch15th Century Dutch Names
16thCWouytYDutch15th Century Dutch Names
16thCWouytoenYDutch15th Century Dutch Names

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCWalterusLatinNames from 13th Century Northumberland
13thCWalterusLatinGiven Names from Early 13th Century England
14thCWalterEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
14thCWalterLatinYorkshire Given Names from 1379
14thCWalterusLatin14th Century Worcestershire Names
14thCWalterusLatinYorkshire Given Names from 1379
14thCWalterusLatinIndex of Names in the 1381 Suffolk Poll Tax
16thCGautherEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCGoutherEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCGowtherEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCGuallterEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCGualterusLatinNames found in Frocester, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1559-1600
16thCVaterEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCWalterEnglishNames found in the Berkeley Hundred Court Rolls
16thCWalterEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCWalterEnglishName Distribution in King's Stanley Marriages: 1573-1600
16thCWalterEnglishNames found in Cam, Glouchestershire, Marriage Registers 1569-1600
16thCWalterEnglishNames found in Charlton Kings, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1538-1600
16thCWalterEnglishNames found in Minchinhampton, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1566-1600
16thCWalterEnglishNames found in Oldbury-on-Hill, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1538-1600
16thCWalterEnglishNames found in Quedgeley, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1559-1600
16thCWalterEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCWalterEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCWalterEnglishNames of Members of the Frobisher Voyages, 1576-1578
16thCWalterEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCWalterEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCWaltereEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCWaterEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCWaterEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCWaterEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCWaterEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
17thCWalterEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCWalterusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCWaterEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCGautierFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCVuautierFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCWatierFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCWatiersFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCWautierFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCWautiersFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCWuatiersFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
14thCGualterusLatinNames from 13th- and 14th-Century Latin Records from Gascony
14thCWatierFrenchFrench Names from Abbeville, 1388
15thCGaultierFrenchNames from Paris, 1408-1449
15thCGualtierFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600

Culture: German

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
11thCWaltherGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
13thCWaltherGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
13thCWaltherusLatinMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
14thCWaltherGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
14thCWaltherusLatinMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
14thCWelczelYGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
14thCWelczlinusYLatinMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
15thCWalterGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCWaltherGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCWaltherGermanGerman Names from Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg, 1441
15thCWaltherGermanGerman Names from Nürnberg, 1497
15thCWaltterGermanGerman Names from 1495
pre-14thCWalterGermanLate Period German Masculine Given Names

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCGaultirolusLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
14thCGualterinusYLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
15thCGualterottoYItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCGualteruccioYItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCGualtieriItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCGawterScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCValterScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCWalterScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCWaterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCValterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCWalterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCWalterusLatinIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCWaltirScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCWatYScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCWaterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCGalterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCWaltarScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCWalterScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCWalterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCWaltirScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCWaltirScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCWatYScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCWatteYScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCWatterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCWattirScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCValterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCWalterScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue

Culture: Swiss

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
12thCWalteriusLatin12th Century Swiss Names in Latin
12thCWalterusLatin12th Century Swiss Names in Latin
12thCWarteriusLatin12th Century Swiss Names in Latin
14thC,15thCGalteriusLatin14th-15th C Given Names in Latin from Switzerland
14thC,15thCValteriusLatin14th-15th C Given Names in Latin from Switzerland

Culture: Welsh

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCGwallterAnglicized WelshA Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names (in English Contexts)
16thCWalterWelshSome 16th & 17th C Welsh Masculine Names
16thCWalterAnglicized WelshA Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names (in English Contexts)
16thCWatkinYEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCWatkynYAnglicized WelshA Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names (in English Contexts)