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
13thCScienciaLatinFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
14thCScienciaLatinFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
16thCSancheEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
16thCSenceEnglishEnglish Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions
16thCSensEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
17thCSenceEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCSainteFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCSainteFrenchFeminine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
14thCSaintotYFrenchFeminine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCSantesaYLatinFeminine Given Names from Thirteenth Century Perugia
14thCSanctaLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
15thCSantaYItalianFeminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427
15thCSantaItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCSantiItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCSantinaYItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
16thCSantinaYItalianNames from Sixteenth Century Venice

Culture: Portuguese

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCSanchaPortuguesePortuguese Names from Lisbon, 1565

Culture: Spanish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCSanchaSpanishLeonese Names from the First Half of the 14th Century
16thCSanchaSpanish16th Century Spanish Names