Medieval Spanish Names from the Monastery of Sahagun
The Names, Third Group

by Antonio Miguel Santos de Borja (Tony Borning) boring@typhoon.coedu.usf.edu)

© 2000 by Tony Boring; all rights reserved. Last modified 15 May 2000


The Names

The Third Group, 1289-1300 (documents 1850-1899)

Masculine Names

In the third group, dating from March 13, 1289 and June 2, 1300, 71 different names comprised the 92 male citations from the third group. Iohannes had 147 citations (15.94%), Petrus 123 (13.34%), and Fernando 109 (11.82%). As these 3 names together comprise 41.10% of the citations, it is not surprising that the next name should appear just over half as many times. The 13 remaining names to appear more than 1% of the time are Dominico, Rodrigo, Alfonso, Martin, Garcia, Gonzaluo, Diago, Sancho, Arias, Alvaro, Esteuan, Lope and Fagund. 23 names are unique from this list. 24 of the 71 names are of Latin origin, 17 of Christian origin, 15 Germanic, 3 Basque, 3 Greek, 2 Arabic and 1 Hebrew. The average number of citations per name is 12.99.

The most common name construction pattern present in this group was that of given name plus patronymic by-name, comprising 41.42% of the data. The next most common was a given name by itself, being 35.85% of the cases. The third most common construction was given name plus patronymic plus toponymic by-name, in 12.68% of the cases. All other construction patterns together formed 11.91% of the cases and each of these was less than 5% per style.

Name#
Iohannes147
Petrus123
Fernando109
Dominico61
Rodrigo52
Alfonso47
Martin37
Garcia36
Gonzaluo36
Diago28
Sancho23
Arias15
Alvaro12
Esteuan11
Lope11
Fagund10
Bartolome9
Nicolas9
Nunno9
Apparicio8
Gil8
Pascual6
Gutier5
Micael5
Paulo5
Pelagius5
Silvestre5
Almorauid4
Andres4
Antonio4
Uelasco4
Durante4
Felipe4
Marcos4
Tel4
Tomas4
Guillen3
Gusbert3
Lorenzo3
Manuel3
Raimundo3
Simon3
Beltran3
Bernaldus2
Francisco2
Saluador2
Sancho2
Vicente2
Abril1
Antolin1
Arnaldo1
Assensio1
Beneyto1
Bonifacius1
Celestino1
Correnbalde1
Isidro1
Fotrinas1
Gregorio1
Grigelmo1
Guillermo1
Guiral1
Iuliano1
Lazaro1
Lucas1
Mateho1
Pay1
Sebastian1
Uasco1
Uidal1
Xabiça1

Feminine Names

The third group of names contains 14 female names and 32 citations. Maria was the most common name with 13 citations (40.63%). Costanza and Isabel each had 3 citations and Domenga and Iuana each had 2. The remaining eight names were unique. 9 names were of Latin origin, 4 Christian and 1 Germanic. The average number of citations per name is 2.29.

Name#
Maria13
Costanza3
Isabel3
Domenga2
Iuana2
Elvira1
Estevania1
Mariana1
Marinella1
Mençia1
Missol1
Sol1
Sancha1
Taresa1


The Study
The Names, First Group
The Names, Second Group
The Names, Third Group
The Historical Influences
Works Consulted


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