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Medieval Names for Girls

There are 99 Medieval names for baby girls. Displayed on this page are Medieval names 1 to 20. Within these names, Ava (German and English) was the most popular in 2008 with a rank of #5 and a usage of 0.8198%, followed in descending order by Alison (English, French, and Scottish), Cassandra (English and German), Aurora (English, Finnish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish), Alice (Czech, English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese), Arabella (English, German, and Italian), and Belinda (English, German, Italian, and Spanish). The unusual Medieval names are Agatha (English, German, and Italian), Agnes (Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian), Amice (English), Angharad (Welsh), Aoibheann (Irish), Aveline (English and French), Averil (English), Avila (English), Beate (German and Spanish), Bertha (French and Spanish), Blanche (English and French), Bonita (English and Spanish), and Candida (English, German, and Italian).

Medieval names are very popular as baby girl names, and they are also regarded as fairly trendy. Their usage peaked in 1914 with 15.746% of baby girls being given Medieval names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 50 Medieval names. The names have slipped in popularity since then. In 2008, their total usage was 5.758% with 42 Medieval names listed among the top 1000, appearing with somewhat increasing regularity in the recent decade. Among all Medieval names, Emma (English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, and Italian) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #1 and a usage of 0.9043%.

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Agatha Popularity Trend of Agatha
from 1900 to 2008. kind, good ... along with other medieval names. ...

Agnes Popularity Trend of Agnes
from 1900 to 2008. pure, chaste; hunger; ... medieval vernacular forms Annis and Annes reflected ...

Alice Popularity Trend of Alice
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 326 326 of a noble kind ... by the Bele Aaliz medieval romances, and by the ...

Alison Popularity Trend of Alison
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 273 273 of a noble kind ... was popular in medieval England in the forms Alyson or ...

Amice friendship ... Amice was popular among medieval English speakers ...

Angharad much loved ... a collection of medieval Welsh folk tales, ...

Aoibheann fair radiance, beautiful ... royalty in the early medieval period ...

Arabella Popularity Trend of Arabella
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 657 657 obliging, invokable ... an elaborated form of medieval Scottish forms of ...

Aurora Popularity Trend of Aurora
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 288 288 dawn ... as a given name in the medieval period, but was revived ...

Ava Popularity Trend of Ava
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 5 5 strength; desired; alive; bird; voice, song, sound; the juniper tree ...

Aveline little bird, strength, ... along with other medieval names. ...

Averil boar-like in battle; ... which developed in the medieval period from the Old ...

Avila bird, strength, desired ... name was originally a medieval pet form of Ava or ...

Beate blessed; traveller, ... and was thus popular in medieval Europe ...

Belinda Popularity Trend of Belinda
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 747 747 beautiful snake; beautiful ... and immortality in medieval times ...

Bertha Popularity Trend of Bertha
from 1900 to 2008. bright, famous; bright ... name was popularized in medieval times by Bertha ...

Blanche Popularity Trend of Blanche
from 1900 to 2008. white, bright, beautiful; ... not used much in the medieval period ...

Bonita Popularity Trend of Bonita
from 1900 to 2008. pretty ... used as a given name in medieval times ...

Candida Popularity Trend of Candida
from 1900 to 2008. white ... was borne by several medieval saints, including a ...

Cassandra Popularity Trend of Cassandra
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 284 284 shining upon man; protrude, ... nevertheless a popular medieval name ...


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