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The following is a list of new entries which will be available in the next edition of the Dictionary, with a planned publication date in early 2019.
Men’s names
Adalmod
Adrebald
Adrebert
Aitulf
Aldram
Alibert
Archangel
Aster
Athanasius
Aurelian
Averroes
Baruch
Beauoncle
Beauviz
Bogus
Bohun
Cephas
Conmarch
Dragan
Dragon
Ermentar
Eutropius
Evangelist
Everich
Father
Ferrer
Floridas
Framrich
Giselwin
Godbert
Godsven
Grasso
Helmhard
Huldward
Ido
Ishmael
Jodocus
John-Michael
Joly
Jordan
Littera
Liutmar
Llywarch
Maelgwn
Malatesta
Malherbe
Malparent
Mancinagross
Manens
Manwulf
Maol Brigdhe
Martin-Angel
Meinbern
Meinhelm
Meino
Mercury
Michael-Angel
Miloslav
Micah
Monday
Muhammad
Nicander
Nicholas-Angel
Nivo
Odelbert
Odelschalk
Ogo
Ortgar
Ortgis
Ortmar
Ortrich
Ortwin
Ostrobert
Oswi
Otfrid
Radhold
Ramiro
Reinbern
Reinelm
Reinteus
Richbert
Richman
Sadrahar
Salefrid
Salo
Sano
Stanimir
Theodwig
Thorberg
Victorian
Vladislav
Wacher
Wineran
Winter
Wolfald
Wolfbern
Wolfbert
Wolfgrim
Wolfheah
Zemislav
Women’s names
Ameria
Bathsheba
Betta
Bonifacia
Breysia
Christofana
Ermentaria
Ermentilde
Fusca
Gerhaus
Grassa
Guilitsa
Hartgilde
Huldegarde
Imperia
Ingbalda
Joan-Stephanie
Joyce
Lantberga
Liutberga
Magna
Materia
Maxima
Meinberga
Meinilde
Membresia
Montana
Mora
Morbida
Noire
Olympia
Ostosia
Pulchia
Quentine
Radhilde
Raymonda-Ameria
Reinlinde
Reinwise
Rose
Sabata
Sadrilde
Saintisme
Sigboda
Verderosa
Vigore
Volkrada
Volkwara
Vuteria
Waltera
Weltrude
Zippora
Gender uncertain
Ratgis
Last updated 12 April 2019.
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1. Great work! many thanks. 2. Question: does “Great Britain” include Ireland? The Irish Annals and M.A. O’Brien’s Corpus Genealogiarum Hibernici contain a ton of historical names already compiled into indices.
We’re including names from Ireland, too. 🙂 One of the problems with the Irish annals as a source for names is that not all the records are contemporary with the events they describe; many annals entries were written after the fact, and over time the annals have been retranscribed and linguistically updated; this means that you get Early Modern Irish spellings of Old Irish — or even Oghamic Irish — names, which are not necessarily going to be spellings appropriate for the time the name was in use! We haven’t quite decided on how to handle these cases yet, so they’re being left to a later stage.
In the meantime, if you want a good index of the names in the Irish annals, http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/ is a good place to start.
Such a great list – but you missed the wonderful name “Aurembiaix”, a beautiful medieval (12th Century) Catalan name, which belonged to the Countess of Urgell.
Thanks for your work 🙂
That is a beautiful name! We haven’t yet collected any citations of it, but I look forward to when we do.
What, no Martha or Marta? Harumph!
We have citations (from 16th C England, 14th C Moravia, and one lone 9th C German example), but haven’t yet completed the entry — there’s a lot of Biblical names that are not going to make it into the first edition simply because Hebrew names throw up problems we don’t face with, say, Germanic ones.
Well, since you requested it…I bumped the entry for Martha to the top of the queue and have finished writing it and reviewing the citations. You can look for it in the first edition. 🙂
Wow! Thank you!
Eleanor?
That one’s been published! http://dmnes.org/name/Eleanor
Have you come across the names Eupraxia/Praxedes/Praxede/Praxed ?
We have one example of Eupraxia, from 11th C Italy: http://dmnes.org/name/Eupraxia. We have not yet come across any variant of the other name.
What can you tell me about the name Praxedes/Praxed/Praxede and Eupraxia? Have you come across it much?
We have one example of Eupraxia, from 11th C Italy: http://dmnes.org/name/Eupraxia. We have not yet come across any variant of the other name.
Have you ever heard of Erszbet as a Hungarian form of Elisabeth? At some point in my life I was told that is was the Hungarian form of my maternal Grandmothers given name. Just wondered if it was so. I love seeing all these names. Thank you.
Yes, that is indeed a Hungarian form of Elizabeth! We don’t yet have any citations of this name from Hungary, but I can ask our Hungarian editor to see about adding some for the next edition.