Meanings & themes
Medieval names still in use
26 names · 10 girls · 16 boys · records through 2025
The medieval name pool was small and heavily reused: a handful of names covered most of England for three centuries, which is why so many of them feel simultaneously ancient and entirely familiar.
This guide has 26 names: 10 girl names and 16 boy names. A curated set of medieval European names matched against the latest US records; only names in real use appear. Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.
Before the names
The ones that survived into modern American use tend to be the ones the Normans brought and the church kept — Matilda, Eleanor, Hugh, Edmund, Constance.
Everything below is verified in the current records; the genuinely extinct half of the medieval register is not here.
Girl names
10 names
Boy names
16 names
- Henry#5 today
- Milo#119 today
- Walter#251 today
- Tristan#309 today
- Conrad#417 today
- Lionel#659 today
- Hugh#732 today
- Roger#832 today
- Joan#984 today
- Ralph#1046 today
- Alaric#1063 today
- Edmund#1081 today
- Reginald#1281 today
- Gilbert#1328 today
- Randall#1499 today
- Guy#1634 today
Every rank and count here is published by the US Social Security Administration and refreshed each year when the new figures land. The method is stated at the top of this page.
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