Late Period German Masculine Given Names

by Talan Gwynek (Brian M. Scott)
scott@math.csuohio.edu

These data were compiled from two sources:

• Roland Mulch, Arnsburger Personennamen: Untersuchungen zum Namenmaterial aus Arnsburger Urkunden vom 13. - 16. Jahrhundert (Darmstadt and Marburg: Hessischen Historischen Kommission Darmstadt and the Historischen Kommission für Hessen, 1974).
• Volkmar Hellfritzsch, Vogtländische Personennamen (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1969).

Name Frequency

Plauen

Alphabetical Lists

• Arnsburg, 15th century
• Plauen, 14th century
• Plauen, 15th century
• Plauen, 16th century

Names from 15th Century Arnsburg

Mulch covers only the 15th century. He lists the following names as occurring in the vicinity of Arnsburg in this period. The capitalization is according to Mulch. The notes are mine.

Names from 14th Century Plauen

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 remained in use through the end of our period. I suspect that Eys is an exception which fell out of use fairly soon after the 14th century, and that Dionysius was rare at any time. Lupoldus very probably lost its latinate ending and continued in use as Lupold. 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.

Names from 15th Century Plauen

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.

Names from 16th Century Plauen

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.