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
15thCCharlesDutch15th Century Dutch Names
16thCCarelDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCCarelDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCCarloDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCCarolusLatinNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCCharlesDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCKarelDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCCarolusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCCarolusLatinNames found in Frocester, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1559-1600
16thCCharelesEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCCharlesEnglishNames found in Minchinhampton, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1566-1600
16thCCharlesEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCCharlesEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCCharlesEnglishNames of Members of the Frobisher Voyages, 1576-1578
16thCCharlesEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCCharlesEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCCharlesEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCCharlysEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCCharrolusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCCarolusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCCharlesEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCCharolusEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCCharleFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCCharlesFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCKarlesFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
14thCCharlesOccitanOccitan names from Saint Flour, France, 1380-1385
15thCCharlesFrenchNames from Choisy, France, 1475-1478
15thCCharlesFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCCharlesFrenchNames from Paris, 1408-1449
15thCCharlotYFrenchNames from Choisy, France, 1475-1478
15thCCharlotYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCCharlotYFrenchNames from Paris, 1408-1449
16thCCarleFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCCharlesFrenchNames from a 1587 Tax Roll from Provins
16thCCharlesFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCCharlesFrenchSixteenth Century Norman Names
16thCCharlesFrenchNames from Sixteenth Century Picardy
16thCCharlesDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
17thCCharlesFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600

Culture: German

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCKarelGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCKarlGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCKarleGermanGerman Names from 1495
15thCKarllGermanGerman Names from Nürnberg, 1497
16thCKarlGermanLate Period German Masculine Given Names

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCCarolusLatinNames from the Chronicon Spilimbergense
14thCKarolusLatinNames from the Chronicon Spilimbergense
14thCKarulusLatinNames from the Chronicon Spilimbergense
15thCCarlettoYItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCCarloItalianFifteenth Century Venetian Masculine Names
15thCCarloItalianNames from Arezzo, Italy, 1386-1528
15thCCarloItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCCarluciusYLatinNames from 15th Century Naples
15thCCarlusLatinNames from 15th Century Naples
16thCCarloItalianNames from Sixteenth Century Venice
16thCCarloItalianNames from Arezzo, Italy, 1386-1528

Culture: Portuguese

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCCherlesPortuguesePortuguese Names from Lisbon, 1565

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCCharlisScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCCharlesScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue

Culture: Spanish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCCarlesCatalanCatalan Names from 15th-Century Barcelona
15thCCarlosSpanishSpanish Names from the Late 15th Century
16thCCarlesCatalanCatalan Names from the 1510 census of Valencia
16thCCarlosSpanish16th Century Spanish Names