Late Period German Masculine Given Names

Names from 15th Century Plauen

by Talan Gwynek (Brian M. Scott)
bmscott@stratos.net

These names are extracted from Volkmar Hellfritzsch, Vogtländische Personennamen (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1969). 1974).

Hellfritzsch sorted names according to their first recorded occurance in his region, and then divided the data into 50-year blocks. Most of these names -- probably all of them -- remained in use through the end of our period. Therefore, for a more complete list of names in use in the 15th century, you should also contact the lists name first occurances from the 14th century. However, please keep in mind that these lists are not exhaustive and bear no relation to the frequency of individual names.

In each column, names of Germanic origin are listed in the first section, and names of Christian or Latin origin in the second.

1401-1450 1451-1500

Germanic
Bertold
Gerbrecht
Gerhart
Günther
Herel
Ludwig
Nopel
Örtel
Burghart
Engelhart
Hartmann
Leonhart
Oswald
Siegismund
Siegmund
Wilhelm

Christian
Adam
Ägidius
Augustin
Bartholomäus
Benedikt
Christian
Christoph
Gregor
Hieronymus
Jobst
Kaspar
Markus
Philipp
Sebastian
Stefan
Theodor
Veit
Vinzenz
Wenzel
Georg
Jakob
Thomas





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