Middle English Names

31 Middle English names for girls, listing Middle English baby names 1-10. Blythe, Celia, Cherry, Christina, Cicely, Clare and Cynthia are popular names. Carden, Cavanaugh and Cleva are uncommon names. View Middle English baby names for name meanings, search Middle English names for boys, or search other baby names.

Blythe (Old English) ... Modern coinage, though possibly linked to the transferred use of the surname from the word "blithe" during the Middle Ages ... [1]

Carden (Middle English) ... Carding was one of the important occupations in the Middle Ages when the economy of Southern England relied heavily on the wool trade ... [2]

Cavanaugh (Middle English) ... [3]

Celia ... The name was not used in the Middle Ages ... and was introduced to the English-speaking world as the name of a character in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" ... [3]

Cherry (Middle English, Old French) 19th-century coinage probably from the fruit-bearing tree of the rose family (Middle English "cherie", from Old French "cherise") ... [9]

Christina ... or a Latin form of Christin (Middle English) "Christian" ... [93]

Cicely The English variant of Cecily ... Common in the Middle Ages ... [1]

Clare ... The regular English form of Clara since the Middle Ages.

Cleva (Middle English) ...

Cynthia ... The English given name was not used in the Middle Ages ... [42]

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