Research Paper

We go on with the submitting of a overview regarding the origin of European names widely used today. Next part is devoted to names that came from distant past.
• Old Mainland Germanic: Several widely familiar names, such as William, Robert, Richard, Roger, Geoffrey, Guy, Hugh, and Matilda – all of which have well-established ties in German, Dutch, French, and other linguas – borne in Germanic pre-history. It is possible to utilize Polish translation to find more. They reached English by a shaded route. The official language of the judges of the Merovingian and Carolingian Franks (5th – 9th centuries) was Latin, however their vernacular language was a Germanic variation, and their given names were mostly of Germanic origin. These Frankish given names appeared to be set-up in ancient France and in due course were picked up by the Vikings who settled in Normandy in the 9th century. After the Norman occupation of Britain in 1066, these personal names were brought to England, where they noticeably pushed out usual Anglo-Saxon given names like Ethelred and Athelthryth. A very insignificant Anglo-Saxon personal names survived, for example Edward, which was borne by King Edward the Confessor (c. 1002–1066; ruled 1042–1066), the ancestor of an Anglo-Saxon man and a Norman woman, who was revered by British and Vikings alike. A quite different case is that of Alfred, an British name that fell out of use under the Normans, but was revived in the 19th century in commemoration of the great 9th-century Royal of Wessex.
• Ancient Norse: Old Norse is, of course, a Germanic language, but its naming custom is quite different from that of continental Germanic, and many traditional Norse names are still used in Scandinavia nowadays, for example Olaf, Harald, Hakon. There has been much borrowing from German (e.g., Helga, Ingeborg). Several Nordic names such as Ingrid have been adopted much more widely. Many looked for linguistic services into Slavic. In the latter case, the TV celebrity Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) was a powerful attraction.
• Ancient Slavic linguas: Names such as Wojciech (Vojteˇch), BogusLaw (Bohuslav), and StanisLaw (Stanislav) are unlikely used in the English-speaking environment except among Slavic immigrants, however represent a strong and independent Slavic tradition, with cognates in various Slavic languages. Many such names are pre-Bible, whereas others have been sanctified by use as a saint’s name. Except where a saint has been involved, these names are not much used in Russia, because there the Orthodox Church has long insisted on using names related to Christian saints, such as Fyodor (Theodore) and Dmitri. These are predominately of Greek origin. Among the Western Slavs (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks) and Southern Slavs (Serbs, Croatians, Slovenians, Bulgarians, etc.), each linguistic county of Slavic speakers has its own characteristic set of custom given names, most of which are of Slavic etymology.

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