16th and early 17th C. feminine names from Lithuanian records.

by Rebecca Lucas (ffride wlffsdotter)

© 2013; all rights reserved
last updated 4th August 2013

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Personal Names
  3. Anthroponyms
  4. Bibliography

Personal names

Of the 69 personal names recorded, Čirūnaitė divided them into Muslim and Christian, and further divided the latter group into Christian and non-Christian names. There is a chance that this final group may be unidentified diminutives of other names. In this section, the header forms are the modern Lithuanian names.
In order of frequency, the top twenty names recorded were:

  1. Ona, 135 records
  2. Kotryna, 55
  3. Sofiya, 47
  4. Dorotėja, 46
  5. Barbora, 43
  6. Marina, 37
  7. Elžbieta, 31
  8. Elena/ Halina, 27
  9. Margarita, 26
  10. Jadvyga, 24
  11. Bogdana, 16
  12. Agnietė, 10
  13. Liucija, 10
  14. Magdalena, 10
  15. Anastazija, 9
  16. Marija, 9
  17. Tomilė, 9
  18. Uršulė, 9
  19. Apolonija, 8
  20. Teodora, 7

The full list of feminine personal names:
Note that header forms are in modern Lithuanian.