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
14thCRichardLatinMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCRitsaertDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCRycsikenYDutchMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
16thCRichardDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCRicardusLatinNames from 13th Century Northumberland
13thCRicardusLatinGiven Names from Early 13th Century England
13thCRichardusLatinGiven Names from Early 13th Century England
14thCRicardusLatin14th Century Worcestershire Names
14thCRicardusLatinYorkshire Given Names from 1379
14thCRicardusLatinIndex of Names in the 1381 Suffolk Poll Tax
14thCRichardEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCRecherdEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCRicardusLatinNames found in Frocester, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1559-1600
16thCRichardEnglishNames found in the Berkeley Hundred Court Rolls
16thCRichardEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCRichardEnglishName Distribution in King's Stanley Marriages: 1573-1600
16thCRichardEnglishNames found in Cam, Glouchestershire, Marriage Registers 1569-1600
16thCRichardEnglishNames found in Charlton Kings, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1538-1600
16thCRichardEnglishNames found in Minchinhampton, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1566-1600
16thCRichardEnglishNames found in Oldbury-on-Hill, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1538-1600
16thCRichardEnglishNames found in Quedgeley, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1559-1600
16thCRichardEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRichardEnglishNames of Members of the Frobisher Voyages, 1576-1578
16thCRichardEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCRichardEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCRichardEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCRichardDutchNames from Dutch Records Between 1584-1585
16thCRichardeEnglishNames found in Minchinhampton, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1566-1600
16thCRichardeEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCRichardeEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRichardeEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCRichardesLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRichardusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRicheardEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRicherEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRicherdEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCRicherdEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRychardEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCRychardEnglishNames found in Quedgeley, Glouchestershire Marriage Registers 1559-1600
16thCRychardEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCRychardEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRychardEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCRychardEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCRychardEnglishNames of Soldiers from Kent, 1595
16thCRychardeEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCRychardeEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRychardeEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCRycherEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCRycherdEnglishNames and Naming Practices in the Registers of the Church of St. Mary's, Dymock
16thCRycherdEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCRicardinYEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCRichardEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCRichardeEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCRichardusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCRichartEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCRicherdEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCRycardusLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCRychardEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCRychartEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCChardonYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCChardotYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCRichardinYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCRichartFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCRichartFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
14thCRicardusLatinNames from 13th- and 14th-Century Latin Records from Gascony
14thCRicartFrenchFrench Names from Abbeville, 1388
15thCRichartFrenchNames from Paris, 1408-1449

Culture: German

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCRichartGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
14thCRichelYGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
14thCRychelYGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia
15thCReichelYGermanMedieval German Given Names from Silesia

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCRizardoItalianFourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names
14thCRizzardusLatinNames from the Chronicon Spilimbergense
15thCCiardoYItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCRiccardusLatinNames from 15th Century Naples
15thCRizardusLatinNames from 15th Century Naples

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCRichardScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCRichardeScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
14thCRychardScots13th & 14th Century Scottish Names
15thCDicYScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCRechardScots15th-Century Scots Names from Dunfermline
15thCRichardScots15th-Century Scots Names from Dunfermline
15thCRichardScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCRichartScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCRicheYScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCRychartScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
15thCRycheYScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCRechartScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCRecherdScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCRechertScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCRechertScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCRichardScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCRichartScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCRichartScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCRicheYScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCRicherdScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCRicherdeScotsEarly 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names
16thCRichertScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
16thCRychertScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
17thCRicheartScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue

Culture: Spanish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
12thC,13thCRicartCatalanCatalan Names from 12th and 13th Century Charters

Culture: Swiss

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
12thCRichardusLatin12th Century Swiss Names in Latin
14thC,15thCRichardusLatin14th-15th C Given Names in Latin from Switzerland

Culture: Welsh

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCRichardWelshSome 16th & 17th C Welsh Masculine Names
16thCRichardAnglicized WelshA Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names (in English Contexts)
17thCRichardWelshSome 16th & 17th C Welsh Masculine Names