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
13thCAlanusLatinNames from 13th Century Northumberland
13thCAlanusLatinGiven Names from Early 13th Century England
13thCAllanusLatinNames from 13th Century Northumberland
14thCAlanusLatinYorkshire Given Names from 1379
14thCAlanusLatinIndex of Names in the 1381 Suffolk Poll Tax
14thCAlynLatinIndex of Names in the 1381 Suffolk Poll Tax
15thCAlanEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCAlanEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCAllamEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCAllanEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCAllenEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCAllenEnglishNames of Members of the Frobisher Voyages, 1576-1578
16thCAllenEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCAlleneEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCAlenEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCAlainFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCAlainFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCAlainonYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
15thCAlainFrenchNames from Choisy, France, 1475-1478
15thCAlainFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCAlainFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
16thCAlainFrenchNames from a 1587 Tax Roll from Provins
16thCAlainFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
16thCAllainFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCAlaneScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCAlanusLatinIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
14thCAlayneScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCAlanScots15th-Century Scots Names from Dunfermline
15thCAlanScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCAlaneScots15th-Century Scots Names from Dunfermline
15thCAlaneScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCAllanScots15th-Century Scots Names from Dunfermline
15thCAllanScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCAllaneScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCAlaneScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCAllaneScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCAllayneScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCAllyoneScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
17thCAllanScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCAllaneScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue