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
14thCOliuierDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCOlivierDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCOlyuierDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
16thCOlivierDutch15th Century Dutch Names
16thCOlivierDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCOleverEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCOliverEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCOliverEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCOliverEnglishNames of Members of the Frobisher Voyages, 1576-1578
16thCOliverEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCOliverEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCOliverDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCOlyverEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCOlyverEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCOlyverEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCOlyverEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
17thCOliverusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCOlivierFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCOlivierFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
14thCOliverusLatinNames from 13th- and 14th-Century Latin Records from Gascony
15thCOliuierFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
15thCOlivierFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
16thCOliuierFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
16thCOlivierFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCOlliuierFrenchGiven Names from Brittany, 1384-1600
16thCOllivierFrenchNames from Artois, 1601

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCOliverioItalianFourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names
15thCAllivoItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCOlifeirScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCOliuerScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCOliverScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCOliuerScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCOliverScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue

Culture: Spanish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
12thCOlibaLatinCatalan Names in Latin Contexts: the late 12th century
12thC,13thCOlivarCatalanCatalan Names from 12th and 13th Century Charters
16thCHoliverCatalanCatalan Names from the 1510 census of Valencia