Priscilla Hall, Herbert Carpenter, Jacosa Dempster, Eustace Blake, Marion Exeter, Reginald Nightingale
More British Fantasy Names with Medieval English Names. Tables for 200 English Medieval Personal Names and Medieval English Surnames
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English Medieval Names
Names in England from 13th century until the early modern. Included many Norman names. Surnames became more and more common. Related names included Anglo-Saxon, Cornish and Old Danish.
In addition to the surnames below, people used Occupations, place names, names of parents and nicknames.
For more names there is an Fantasy British Character Names generator at Chaos Gen. There is a pdf of these and more tables on Drive Thru RPG as British Fantasy Names.
English Personal Names
anglo-saxon | cornish | med-english | med-scot | med-welsh | norman | old danish old irish | old norse | old welsh | pict | roman | romano-british | scot-gaelic | occupations
| d100 | Female Names | Male Names |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agatha | Adam |
| 2 | Agnes | Alan |
| 3 | Aldith | Albin |
| 4 | Aldreda | Aldus |
| 5 | Alicia | Alfred |
| 6 | Amicia | Ambros |
| 7 | Amphelise | Amis |
| 8 | Anne | Ancel |
| 9 | Audrey | Androwe |
| 10 | Avelina | Arnold |
| 11 | Avice | Arnulf |
| 12 | Barbata | Arthur |
| 13 | Beatrix | Bartholomew |
| 14 | Belle | Bate |
| 15 | Benedicta | Benedict |
| 16 | Bethia | Bernard |
| 17 | Blythe | Clement |
| 18 | Botild | Daniel |
| 19 | Cassandra | Daw |
| 20 | Catherine | Dicun |
| 21 | Cecille | Edmund |
| 22 | Christiana | Edward |
| 23 | Clarice | Elias |
| 24 | Clemence | Elric |
| 25 | Constance | Eustace |
| 26 | Diana | Everard |
| 27 | Dionisia | Firmin |
| 28 | Dorothy | Fulke |
| 29 | Dye | Geoffrey |
| 30 | Editha | George |
| 31 | Eleanor | Gerard |
| 32 | Elizabeth | Gervase |
| 33 | Ellen | Gilbert |
| 34 | Emeline | Godfrey |
| 35 | Emma | Gregory |
| 36 | Ester | Guy |
| 37 | Etheldreda | Hamon |
| 38 | Eva | Hankin |
| 39 | Felicia | Henry |
| 40 | Florence | Herbert |
| 41 | Francis | Herry |
| 42 | Gillian | Hob |
| 43 | Goldiva | Hopkin |
| 44 | Grace | Hubert |
| 45 | Gunnora | Hugh |
| 46 | Gylda | Humfrey |
| 47 | Hawise | Ilbert |
| 48 | Helewis | Ingram |
| 49 | Hilde | Jack |
| 50 | Ida | Jackin |
| 51 | Imogen | Jake |
| 52 | Ionet | James |
| 53 | Isabel | Jankin |
| 54 | Ismay | Jasper |
| 55 | Joane | Jerome |
| 56 | Jocosa | Jocelyn |
| 57 | Joyce | John |
| 58 | Juliana | Jordan |
| 59 | Kateline | Julian |
| 60 | Katerina | Lambert |
| 61 | Laurencia | Larkin |
| 62 | Letia | Laurence |
| 63 | Lettice | Luke |
| 64 | Loveday | Mack |
| 65 | Lucy | Martin |
| 66 | Lydia | Mathew |
| 67 | Mabel | Milo |
| 68 | Malkin | Morris |
| 69 | Margareta | Nicol |
| 70 | Marion | Norman |
| 71 | Marjorie | Odo |
| 72 | Martha | Osbert |
| 73 | Mary | Osmund |
| 74 | Matilda | Oswin |
| 75 | Maud | Patrick |
| 76 | Megge | Philip |
| 77 | Mildred | Piers |
| 78 | Milicent | Ralf |
| 79 | Molle | Randel |
| 80 | Nichol | Ranulf |
| 81 | Odelina | Reginald |
| 82 | Olivia | Richard |
| 83 | Parnel | Robert |
| 84 | Petronel | Robin |
| 85 | Philippa | Roger |
| 86 | Pleasance | Roland |
| 87 | Priscilla | Sampson |
| 88 | Rametta | Simon |
| 89 | Rayne | Stace |
| 90 | Rosamund | Stephen |
| 91 | Rose | Tenney |
| 92 | Sara | Theobald |
| 93 | Susanna | Thomas |
| 94 | Swethyna | Walter |
| 95 | Sybil | Warin |
| 96 | Tiffan | Wilkin |
| 97 | Tillot | William |
| 98 | Winifrid | Wulfric |
| 99 | Wulveva | Wybert |
| 100 | Ysmay | Wyot |
Medieval English Surnames
| d100 | Shorter Surnames | Longer Surnames |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ash | Appleby |
| 2 | Barr | Arkwright |
| 3 | Bean | Arrowsmith |
| 4 | Beck | Ballard |
| 5 | Beech | Bancroft |
| 6 | Best | Barefoot |
| 7 | Bird | Barrows |
| 8 | Blake | Bellamy |
| 9 | Bone | Birdsong |
| 10 | Booth | Blakeley |
| 11 | Brook | Booker |
| 12 | Bull | Breakspear |
| 13 | Bush | Bywater |
| 14 | Byrd | Cardinal |
| 15 | Chase | Carraway |
| 16 | Clay | Catchpole |
| 17 | Cobb | Chambers |
| 18 | Colt | Chutney |
| 19 | Cox | Crockett |
| 20 | Coy | Cummer |
| 21 | Cross | Daggett |
| 22 | Duck | Darling |
| 23 | Duke | Dempster |
| 24 | Dunn | Doughty |
| 25 | Fear | Edgecombe |
| 26 | Fenn | Fairchild |
| 27 | Finch | Fairfax |
| 28 | Fisk | Farthing |
| 29 | Flax | Fortune |
| 30 | Ford | Frobisher |
| 31 | Fox | Furlong |
| 32 | Frost | Garnett |
| 33 | Fry | Gladding |
| 34 | Gill | Goodenough |
| 35 | Glass | Goshawk |
| 36 | Gold | Grealish |
| 37 | Good | Gudgeon |
| 38 | Goose | Gulliver |
| 39 | Grass | Haddock |
| 40 | Grey | Halfpenny |
| 41 | Haig | Hardwick |
| 42 | Hale | Hathaway |
| 43 | Hall | Hawthorne |
| 44 | Hawk | Hollister |
| 45 | Hext | Hooker |
| 46 | Hill | Hurley |
| 47 | Holt | Ingleright |
| 48 | Hood | Kindred |
| 49 | Hope | Kitchenham |
| 50 | Horn | Knaggs |
| 51 | Hyde | Lockwood |
| 52 | Joy | Longbottom |
| 53 | Keen | Lovecraft |
| 54 | Kemp | Loxley |
| 55 | King | Mallard |
| 56 | Lamb | Meadows |
| 57 | Lane | Meriwether |
| 58 | Lee | Moorcock |
| 59 | Long | Mordaunt |
| 60 | Marsh | Nettles |
| 61 | Mead | Nightingale |
| 62 | Moss | Outlaw |
| 63 | Nash | Paddock |
| 64 | Nye | Padgett |
| 65 | Park | Peevey |
| 66 | Peck | Pender |
| 67 | Peel | Pendleton |
| 68 | Plum | Pickering |
| 69 | Pond | Plumtree |
| 70 | Pratt | Prentice |
| 71 | Pym | Quartermain |
| 72 | Queen | Rampling |
| 73 | Quick | Ravens |
| 74 | Read | Reddish |
| 75 | Roe | Rumbelow |
| 76 | Rook | Scarlett |
| 77 | Rose | Scroggins |
| 78 | Rowe | Shadwell |
| 79 | Rush | Silverthorne |
| 80 | Rye | Simpleton |
| 81 | Sharp | Sorrell |
| 82 | Shaw | Stannard |
| 83 | Short | Stratton |
| 84 | Shuck | Suckling |
| 85 | Snell | Summer |
| 86 | Snow | Sutcliffe |
| 87 | Stark | Sweeting |
| 88 | Stern | Sycamore |
| 89 | Swift | Thwaite |
| 90 | Teel | Tingle |
| 91 | Thorn | Townsend |
| 92 | Todd | Treacher |
| 93 | Tuft | Turnbull |
| 94 | Vann | Underwood |
| 95 | Wade | Venables |
| 96 | Ward | Waddington |
| 97 | Way | Wainscott |
| 98 | Wolf | Whately |
| 99 | Wood | Willows |
| 100 | Yap | Winterburn |
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