Late Period German Masculine Given Names
This article presents some lists of names from two regions of Germany.
Keep in mind that name distributions varied from one place to another, so
the two sets of data cannot be freely mixed. However, they can probably be
taken as a general guide to given names in much of late-period Germany.
These data were compiled from two sources:
- Roland Mulch, Arnsburger Personennamen:
Untersuchungen zum Namenmaterial aus Arnsburger Urkunden vom 13. - 16.
Jahrhundert (Darmstadt & Marburg: Hessischen Historischen Kommission
Darmstadt and the Historischen Kommission für Hessen, 1974).
- Volkmar Hellfritzsch, Vogtländische Personennamen
(Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1969).
Name Frequency
Plauen
The following tables list the most frequent men's names from the area
around Plauen (in what was East Germany, at its common border with
Czechoslovakia and the former West Germany). I have combined records
from the four towns with those from the surrounding villages and
countryside. The total number of persons named is 1280 for the
earlier period; for the later it is 4204. The data are taken from
Hellfritzsch.
| 1451-1500 |
|
1501-1550 |
|---|
|
| Johannes | 397 | | Johannes | 1018 |
| Nikolaus | 287 | | Nikolaus | 615 |
| Heinrich | 86 | | Georg | 218 |
| Ehrhart | 74 | | Ehrhart | 203 |
| Konrad | 67 | | Jobst | 183 |
| Peter | 43 | | Wolf(gang) | 173 |
| Georg | 35 | | Peter | 154 |
| Lorenz | 27 | | Heinrich | 135 |
| Friedrich | 24 | | Konrad | 121 |
| Michel | 24 | | Lorenz | 111 |
Alphabetical Lists
Four lists are available. The Arnsburg list, from Mulch, is a catalogue of
names recorded in the vicinity of Arnsburg in the 15th century. The Plauen
lists, from Hellfritzsch, are lists of names first recorded in the Plauen
area, organized by 50-year blocks.
Editted & published by Arval Benicoeur