Gallery VII · 700 to 1100
The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age
Old Norse names from sagas and runestones, and Old English names from charters and chronicles.
Norse and English names were built from two meaningful parts, such as Old English Ead-weard (wealth and guardian) or Old Norse Ás-laug (god and betrothed). Families often reused one element across generations, so names were a sign of kinship.
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.