Need Old English Baby Names

[dragonowlmoon]

I'd like to use an Old English name for this baby if possible and thought somebody here would be able to help.

thank you

[TweedyneeCole]

I'm better with girl's names tham boy's names:

Abigail
Charlotte
Elizabeth
Beatrice
Lily
Nancy
Jane
Eleanor
Martha
Frances
Vivi an
Agatha
Constance
Flora
Victoria
Virgina
Sarah
Lenora
Laura
Rowena
Margaret
Lydia
Pene lope

[TweedyneeCole]

Ah, missed capital 'O' on Old English. Will be back...

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

here you go

[CuppaTeaJanice]

Do you mean really old, medieval etc?

Wat (Tyler, leader of the peasants revolt)
Henry
Elizabeth
Mary
Anne
Charles

Why don't you look at the censuses for the period of history you're most interested in? Might turn up some lovely names that have been lost in the sands of time...

[dragonowlmoon]

That's a link to Google

[frakkinaround]

How 'Old' English are you looking?

Tudor, Plantagenet, Anglo-saxon?

[dragonowlmoon]

Before medieval.

[CuppaTeaJanice]

Harold

[stleger]

Nell

[Blu]

Cedric
Cnut

Google 'anglo saxon names' and you will get sites with comprehensive lists.

[dragonowlmoon]

I like Harold. I had Ethel on a list for girls, but I looked it up on the talk topic and it's still regarded as old fashioned.

[TweedyneeCole]

Ailith - think it's pre-Medieval. Girl at school had that name. Very pretty.

[foreverastudent]

Tristan

Edward

Arthur

Saxon

Norman

Edmund

Lancelot

Ethel

Mildred

Matilda

Isolde

Oswald

Percy

Wilfred

[AvengingGerbil]

Aelfric
Aelfryth
Matilda
Edith
Emma
Goda
Godwine
Redburga
Osburga
Judith
Wulfrida
Frideswide
Richenda
Aelswyth
Elgiva
Aethelflaed

(most of these are Saxon queens!)

[gothgirl77]

Aline and Oliver are both Anglo-Norman if that helps?

[stleger]

(I love the Saxon ones, aren't they great?)

[creditcrunched]

Cnut
Hardecnut
or
Ethelred

[belgo]

Ethelwolf means noble Wolf. We just went for Wolf.
Harley (means meadow I think in old english)

[AllieW]

How old? Anglo Saxon? Medieval? Or more Victorian (bearing in mind that resurrecting Medieval names was in vogue then anyhow)?

Anyhow, possibles might be:

Girls:
Agatha
Agnes
Audrey
Bride
Bridget
Carmel
Charity
Clara
Clarice
Cordelia (coined by Shakespeare)
Dorothy
Dreda (shortened form of Etheldreda)
Dulcie (Dulce is the Medieval form)
Edith
Elfreda
Faith
Frances
Freda
Heather
Hester
Honor/Honour
Janet
Kathleen (also Cathleen)
Lilian
Magdalen (Medieval English form of Madeleine)
Margaret
Margery/Marjorie
Marian/Marion
Maud
Mavis
Mercy
Mildred
Miranda (another Shakespeare coinage)
Nancy
Nell
Nerissa (yep, Shakespeare again)
Pamela
Patience
Perdita (Shakespeare once more)
Prudence
Rosalin
Rowena
Tacey
Tamsin
Tiffany (actually medieval!!)

Boys:
Alan
Alban
Alfred
Alvin
Ambrose
Bennett
Blaine
Chad
Christian
Curtis
Dennis
Denzel
Digby
Diccon
Dunstan
Edgar
Edmund
Edward
Edwin
Egbert (doubt you'll want this, but trying to be thorough)
Esmond
Fergal
Finnian
Francis
Giles
Godwin
Gregory
Hadrian
Harold
Jago
Jem
Jer emy
Justin
Kenelm
Kit (pet form of Christopher)
Lennan
Luke
Martin
Marvin/Mervyn
Michael
Milton
Ned
Nelson
Nicholas
Nigel
Ni nian
Oswald
Pelham
Peregrine/Perry
Pierce
Ranald
Randall (although you'll have to watch nns!)
Ridley
Rowan
St John (pn Sin-jen)
Selwyn
Todd (from the old English for fox)
Tristan
Tristram
Tybalt
Wilfrid
Willard
Winston
Wistan/Wystan

That's fairly exhaustive, but I've basically trawled one of my name books. Have left out things I know from history like Ethelred - although you may be tempted!

Wyatt

[belgo]

I love the names from Merlin on TV;

Morgana
Morgeuze
Arthur
Uther
Geneviere
Archer (ok that one's from Robin Hood)

[hildegarde]

there are very few left, if you really mean Old English as in before the Norman Conquest.

Edith, Edward... and a whole lot of hideous stuff like Ethelred and Cuthbert. Hawise for a girl (not sure now you say it)... um, Godiva (or Godgifu as i think it was originally spelt in English, meaning God's gift)?

[hildegarde]

www.s-gabriel.org/names/aelfwyn/bede.html

here's a few more!

[MmmCoffee]

I was in a Saxon reenactment group, my Saxon name was Ceolwyn (pronounced Colwin) from the 11th century. It means 'River'.

[mummydarlingsausage]

These are some of the pre 1500 names from dh's family tree -
all the others are french, scottish and european (some unusual looking names btw like Ponce, Fulk and Waleran and a female called Paris!)

Gilbert
John
Walter
Henry
Thomas
Geoffrey
Gerard
Roger
Richard
Humphrey
Robert
Edmund
Ralph
Simon

Bertha
Adela
Isabel
Mary
Lucy
Jane
Elizab eth
Alice
Margaret
Matilda
Thomasine

[chardom]

I know a boy called Adric which is an Anglo-Saxon name and I think its not too outrageous!