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
13thCDianaLatinNames from 13th Century Northumberland
13thCDianaLatinFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
16thCDianaEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCDianaEnglishFeminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames
17thCDianaEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCDianeFrenchSixteenth Century Norman Names
16thCDianenormalized FrenchLate Period French Feminine Names
17thCDianenormalized FrenchLate Period French Feminine Names

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCDianaLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
15thCDianaItalianFeminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427
15thCDianaItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
16thCDianaItalianNames from Sixteenth Century Venice