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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
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
| 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 | Female Names | Male Names |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
More Place Names
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.
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