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
14thCLeoLatinMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCLeweDutchMale first names in the annual accounts of Deventer 1337-1393
14thCLoukenYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCLoukinYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCLouweDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCLouweDutchDutch Names 1358-1361
14thCLouwekinYDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCLyonesDutchDutch Names 1393-96
14thCLyonisDutchDutch Names 1393-96

Culture: English

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCLionelYEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCLionelYEnglishNames of Members of the Frobisher Voyages, 1576-1578
16thCLionelYEnglishLate Sixteenth Century English Given Names
16thCLionellYEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCLionellYEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCLyonellYEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
16thCLyonellYEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
16thCLyonellYEnglishAn Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England
16thCLyonetYEnglish16th Century Names from Ormskirk Parish Registers
17thCLionelYEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCLyonelYEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records
17thCLyonellYEnglishEnglish Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records

Culture: French

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
13thCLionFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCLyonFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
13thCLyonisFrenchNames in the 1292 census of Paris
16thCLeonFrenchNames from a 1587 Tax Roll from Provins
16thCLionFrenchNames from Artois, 1601

Culture: Italian

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
14thCLenuzoYItalianFourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names
14thCLeoLatinItalian names from Imola, 1312
15thCLeoLatinNames from 15th Century Naples
15thCLeoItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCLeolinoYItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCLeoneItalianNames in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado
15thCLionItalianFifteenth Century Venetian Masculine Names
15thCLionettoYLatinNames from 15th Century Naples
16thCLionettoYItalianItalian Masculine Given Names from 15th- and 16th-century Viterbo

Culture: Portuguese

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCLeonPortuguesePortuguese Names from the 16th Century
16thCLeonelYPortuguesePortuguese Names from the 16th Century
16thCLiãoPortuguesePortuguese Names from Lisbon, 1565
16thCLionelYPortuguesePortuguese Names from Lisbon, 1565

Culture: Scottish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
16thCLyoneYScotsIndex of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue

Culture: Spanish

CenturyVariantDiminutive?LanguageSource
15thCLeonSpanishSpanish Names from the Late 15th Century