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
14thCElyasLatinMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCElysDutchMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
15thCEliasDutch15th Century Dutch Names
15thCElyasDutch15th Century Dutch Names

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCEliasLatinNames from 13th Century Northumberland
13thCElyasLatinNames from 13th Century Northumberland
13thCHeliasLatinGiven Names from Early 13th Century England
13thCHelyasLatinGiven Names from Early 13th Century England
14thCEliasLatinIndex of Names in the 1381 Suffolk Poll Tax
14thCElyasLatinYorkshire Given Names from 1379
16thCEliEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCEliaLatinEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCEliasEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCEliasEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCEliassEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCElijachuhEnglishNames in Chesham, 1538-1600/1
16thCElisEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCEllisEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCEllisEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCEllisEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCElyEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCHaliusEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCEliasLatinNames from 13th- and 14th-Century Latin Records from Gascony
13thCEliesFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCElluinYFrenchMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCElyeFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCElyesFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCHeliesFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCHeliusLatinMasculine Given Names in Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde
13thCHelyFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCHelyesFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCHelyetYFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
14thCElyasLatinNames from 13th- and 14th-Century Latin Records from Gascony
14thCHeliasOccitanOccitan names from Saint Flour, France, 1380-1385
14thCHeliasLatinNames from 13th- and 14th-Century Latin Records from Gascony
14thCHeliotYOccitanOccitan names from Saint Flour, France, 1380-1385
14thCHelisOccitanOccitan names from Saint Flour, France, 1380-1385
15thCElyotYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCHelieFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCHeliotYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
15thCHelyotYFrenchFrench Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438
16thCElisFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCEloyFrenchNames from Artois, 1601
16thCHelyeFrenchNames from a 1587 Tax Roll from Provins

Culture: German

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCEliasGermanLate Period German Masculine Given Names

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCHelliaItalian15th Century Italian Men's Names

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCElysScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue

Culture: Swiss

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
12thCHelyasLatin12th Century Swiss Names in Latin