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 ... kind, good ... along with other medieval names. ...

Agnes ... pure, chaste; hunger; ... medieval vernacular forms Annis and Annes reflected ...

Alison 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 648 ... obliging, invokable ... an elaborated form of medieval Scottish forms of ...

Aurora 317 ... dawn ... as a given name in the medieval period, but was revived ...

Ava 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 629 ... beautiful snake; beautiful ... and immortality in medieval times ...

Bertha ... bright, famous ... name was popularized in medieval times by Bertha ...

Blanche ... white, bright, beautiful ... not used much in the medieval period ...

Bonita ... pretty ... used as a given name in medieval times ...

Candida ... white ... was borne by several medieval saints, including a ...

Cassandra 260 ... shining upon man; protrude, ... nevertheless a popular medieval name ...

Cecilia 274 ... blind ... of the name among medieval Christians ...

Celia 783 ... heaven; sky, heaven; ... was seldom used in the medieval period; among English ...