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Kicking off British Fantasy Names with the Normans. Tables for 200 Norman Personal Names and Norman Bynames & Surnames
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Norman Names
The Normans conquered England in 1066, bringing many names from Normandy. Includes a few Breton names. Related Names include Medieval English.
Most Normans used a byname with their Personal Name, with hereditary surnames more common in time. Settlement were often used as a byname, many using , "de" (Rolf de Vere). Others used Occupation (Rolf Fuller) and "Fitz" was common, used for "son of" (Rolf FitzJohn), "Fita" would work for "daughter of" in a fantasy setting.
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.
Norman 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 | Ada | Achard |
| 2 | Adela | Adelard |
| 3 | Adelaide | Alan |
| 4 | Adelisa | Aldous |
| 5 | Agnes | Amaury |
| 6 | Aldusa | Anselm |
| 7 | Aline | Ansger |
| 8 | Alison | Arnold |
| 9 | Alix | Arnulf |
| 10 | Alweis | Asclettin |
| 11 | Amy | Aubrey |
| 12 | Anstace | Baldric |
| 13 | Ascelina | Balduin |
| 14 | Aubrey | Bernard |
| 15 | Aveline | Bertram |
| 16 | Avice | Bevis |
| 17 | Basilia | Bounifas |
| 18 | Bassena | Bryan |
| 19 | Beatrice | Charles |
| 20 | Belia | Clerebold |
| 21 | Bertha | Conrad |
| 22 | Cecily | Drogo |
| 23 | Celestria | Engenulf |
| 24 | Christiania | Erchembald |
| 25 | Claremonde | Eustace |
| 26 | Constance | Everard |
| 27 | Diot | Frank |
| 28 | Edeline | Frederick |
| 29 | Eleanor | Fulk |
| 30 | Ella | Garnier |
| 31 | Elysande | Geoffrey |
| 32 | Emery | Gerald |
| 33 | Emma | Gerrard |
| 34 | Emmeline | Gervase |
| 35 | Ermintrude | Gilbert |
| 36 | Eugenia | Gilles |
| 37 | Florence | Godbert |
| 38 | Floria | Godfrey |
| 39 | Fredesine | Gundulf |
| 40 | Frethesenta | Guy |
| 41 | Galiena | Hamo |
| 42 | Geva | Hasculf |
| 43 | Giselle | Henry |
| 44 | Grecia | Herbert |
| 45 | Gundrada | Herman |
| 46 | Gunnilda | Hervey |
| 47 | Gunnora | Hubert |
| 48 | Hawise | Hugh |
| 49 | Helewis | Humphrey |
| 50 | Herleva | Ilbert |
| 51 | Hermine | Ingram |
| 52 | Hildiard | Isembard |
| 53 | Honora | Jocelyn |
| 54 | Hugolina | John |
| 55 | Ida | Jordan |
| 56 | Idonea | Lewis |
| 57 | Isabella | Manasser |
| 58 | Ismay | Mauger |
| 59 | Ivetta | Maurice |
| 60 | Jehane | Miles |
| 61 | Joan | Neil |
| 62 | Joia | Nicholas |
| 63 | Joyce | Norman |
| 64 | Juliane | Odo |
| 65 | Katherine | Orderic |
| 66 | Lecelina | Osmond |
| 67 | Leticia | Phiip |
| 68 | Leutgard | Pierre |
| 69 | Linot | Piers |
| 70 | Mabel | Quentin |
| 71 | Margerie | Ralph |
| 72 | Margot | Randolf |
| 73 | Mariot | Ranulf |
| 74 | Matilda | Rayner |
| 75 | Maud | Reginald |
| 76 | Maynild | Reimund |
| 77 | Maysent | Reinard |
| 78 | Melisent | Reynold |
| 79 | Mildegod | Richard |
| 80 | Muriel | Robert |
| 81 | Nicola | Roger |
| 82 | Orielda | Roland |
| 83 | Papia | Rolf |
| 84 | Petronilla | Saer |
| 85 | Preciosa | Serlo |
| 86 | Primeveire | Simon |
| 87 | Richera | Stephen |
| 88 | Richolda | Tancred |
| 89 | Rohese | Theobald |
| 90 | Rosalind | Thomas |
| 91 | Rosamund | Turold |
| 92 | Sabelina | Turstin |
| 93 | Sara | Urse |
| 94 | Seinfreda | Wace |
| 95 | Sibyl | Walcher |
| 96 | Sigge | Waleran |
| 97 | Solicita | Walkelin |
| 98 | Thira | Walter |
| 99 | Yves | William |
| 100 | Yvetta | Wischard |
Norman Bynames and Surnames
| d100 | Norman Byname |
|---|---|
| 1 | Anquetil |
| 2 | Archer |
| 3 | Avery |
| 4 | Banister |
| 5 | Baskerville |
| 6 | Beauchamp |
| 7 | Beaumont |
| 8 | Beausire |
| 9 | Bellamy |
| 10 | Bettencourt |
| 11 | Bonner |
| 12 | Botterill |
| 13 | Bowell |
| 14 | Buffett |
| 15 | Butcher |
| 16 | Butler |
| 17 | Campion |
| 18 | Carter |
| 19 | Chambers |
| 20 | Chancellor |
| 21 | Coffin |
| 22 | Corbett |
| 23 | Courtenay |
| 24 | Darcy |
| 25 | Darrell |
| 26 | de Burgh |
| 27 | de Lacy |
| 28 | Delahaye |
| 29 | Delaney |
| 30 | Devereux |
| 31 | Dorsey |
| 32 | Draper |
| 33 | Drury |
| 34 | Duhamel |
| 35 | Everest |
| 36 | Ewart |
| 37 | FitzAllen |
| 38 | FitzClarence |
| 39 | Fitzwilliam |
| 40 | Fletcher |
| 41 | Gaines |
| 42 | Grant |
| 43 | Grosvenor |
| 44 | Hamel |
| 45 | Harcourt |
| 46 | Haynes |
| 47 | Hershey |
| 48 | Hewlett |
| 49 | Hussey |
| 50 | Ilbert |
| 51 | Irons |
| 52 | Karr |
| 53 | Lamar |
| 54 | Lambert |
| 55 | Large |
| 56 | Latimer |
| 57 | Leavitt |
| 58 | Lesueur |
| 59 | Lever |
| 60 | Lowell |
| 61 | Lyle |
| 62 | Lyon |
| 63 | Major |
| 64 | Mallory |
| 65 | Massey |
| 66 | Molyneux |
| 67 | Montgomery |
| 68 | Moon |
| 69 | Mortimer |
| 70 | Mullins |
| 71 | Mutton |
| 72 | Neel |
| 73 | Neville |
| 74 | Pettigrew |
| 75 | Petty |
| 76 | Pomeroy |
| 77 | Quincy |
| 78 | Richmond |
| 79 | Roche |
| 80 | Roussel |
| 81 | Roy |
| 82 | Gifford |
| 83 | Sayre |
| 84 | Sempers |
| 85 | Seymour |
| 86 | Sidney |
| 87 | Sinclair |
| 88 | Spencer |
| 89 | Talbot |
| 90 | Tawney |
| 91 | Taylor |
| 92 | Terrell |
| 93 | Tracey |
| 94 | Travers |
| 95 | Vernon |
| 96 | Vincent |
| 97 | Vipond |
| 98 | Wallace |
| 99 | Warren |
| 100 | Wash |
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