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Many native English (Anglo-Saxon) names fell into disuse in the later Middle Ages, but experienced a revival in the Victorian era; some of these are Edward, Edwin, Edmund, Edgar, Alfred, Oswald and Harold for males; the female names Mildred and Gertrude also continue to be used in present day, Audrey continues the Anglo-Norman (French) form of ...
A list of their kings has been preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other sources). The Domesday Book records a man named Sagar as a Saxon landowner in Devon in 1086. It also records a man called Segarus, a Latinised version of the name, holding land in Essex at around the same time. By far the largest concentration of men with the ...
A small fraction of given names has an actual English derivation (see Anglo-Saxon names), such as Alfred, Ashley, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edwin, Harold and Oswald. A distinctive feature of Anglophone names is the surnames of important families used as given names, originally to indicate political support or patronage.
Middleton is a locational Anglo-Saxon surname originating from dozens of different settlements in England going by one of the pre-7th-century Old English variations of "middle" (such as midel) and "town" (such as tun).
Pages in category "Old English given names" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... This page was last edited on 1 February 2023, at 21:53 ...