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Medieval Names for Girls

There are 75 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 2007 with a rank of #4 and a usage of 0.8572%, followed in descending order by Cassandra (English and German), Cecilia (English, Finnish, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish), Alison (English, French, and Scottish), Aurora (English, Finnish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish), Belinda (English, German, and Italian), Arabella (English, German, and Italian), and Celia (English, 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), Avila (English), Beate (German), Bertha (French), Blanche (English and French), Bonita (English), and Candida (English, German, and Italian).

Medieval names are very popular as baby girl names, and they are also regarded as fairly trendy. In 1900, 13.255% of baby girls were given Medieval names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 39 Medieval names. The names have slipped in popularity since then. In 2007, their total usage was 5.788% with 31 Medieval names listed among the top 1000, appearing with somewhat increasing regularity in the recent decade. Among all Medieval names, Isabella (German, Italian, and Spanish) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #2 and a usage of 0.9056%.

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Agatha Popularity Trend of Agatha
from 1900 to 2007. ... kind, good ... along with other medieval names. ...

Agnes Popularity Trend of Agnes
from 1900 to 2007. ... pure, chaste; hunger; ... medieval vernacular forms Annis and Annes reflected ...

Alison Popularity Trend of Alison
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 288 288 ... was popular in the medieval period in the forms Alyson ...

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 2007.
2007 Rank: 648 648 ... obliging, invokable ... an elaborated form of medieval Scottish forms of ...

Aurora Popularity Trend of Aurora
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 317 317 ... dawn ... as a given name in the medieval period, but was revived ...

Ava Popularity Trend of Ava
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 4 4 ... strength; desired; bird; voice, song, sound; alive ... used by the end of the medieval period, but it was ...

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

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

Beate ... blessed ... and was thus popular in medieval Europe ...

Belinda Popularity Trend of Belinda
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 629 629 ... beautiful snake; beautiful ... and immortality in medieval times ...

Bertha Popularity Trend of Bertha
from 1900 to 2007. ... bright, famous ... name was popularized in medieval times by Bertha ...

Blanche Popularity Trend of Blanche
from 1900 to 2007. ... white, bright, beautiful ... not used much in the medieval period ...

Bonita Popularity Trend of Bonita
from 1900 to 2007. ... pretty ... used as a given name in medieval times ...

Candida Popularity Trend of Candida
from 1900 to 2007. ... white ... was borne by several medieval saints, including a ...

Cassandra Popularity Trend of Cassandra
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 260 260 ... shining upon man; protrude, ... nevertheless a popular medieval name ...

Cecilia Popularity Trend of Cecilia
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 274 274 ... blind ... of the name among medieval Christians ...

Celia Popularity Trend of Celia
from 1900 to 2007.
2007 Rank: 783 783 ... heaven; sky, heaven; ... was seldom used in the medieval period; among English ...



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