Late Period German Masculine Given Names
Names from 16th Century Plauen
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 16th
century, you should also contact the lists name first occurances from the
14th and 15th
centuries. 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.
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1501-1550
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1551-1600 |
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| Germanic |
| Arnold |
| Hildebrand |
| Hilpert |
| Karl |
| Lampert |
| Leuthold |
| Neidhart |
| Sebald |
| Seitz |
| Tilmann |
| Wolf(gang) |
|
|
|
|
| Christian |
| Alexander |
| Ambrosius |
| Anton |
| August |
| Balthasar |
| Blasius |
| Clemens |
| Dominik |
| Erasmus |
| Eustachius |
| Fabian |
| Gallus |
| Joachim |
| Kilian |
| Korbinian |
| Lukas |
| Melchior |
| Moritz |
| Pankratz |
| Quirinus |
| Sixtus |
| Tiburtius |
| Tobias |
| Urban |
| Valentin |
|
|
| Abraham |
| Basilius |
| Daniel |
| David |
| Elias |
| Eucharius |
| Gabriel |
| Jeremias |
| Joseph |
| Josua |
| Julius |
| Justus |
| Salomon |
| Samuel |
| Severin |
| Zacharias |
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Editted & published by Arval Benicoeur