Medieval Naming Guides: Mongol
Mongol Names
The Mongols ruled a vast area of land, stretching from Russia and the Middle East to China. More information about Turkic and Central Asian naming practices, which are related to the naming practices of some of the Mongols, may be found in the Islamic and Central Asian sections of this Archive.
- Middle Mongol Grammar for SCA Names, by Ursula Georges
- Describes how to build a Mongol name using a patronymic, descriptive, or tribal byname.
- Mongolian Naming Practices, by Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy.
- Originally published in the 1998 KWHS, updated in 2010. Contains detailed discussion on Mongolian naming practices, along with a pronunciation guide, lists of men's and women's names, and clan/tribal names, along with information about epithets and titles.
- Die Personennamen und Titel der mittelmongolischen Dokumente, by Volker Rybatzki.
- A dissertation that includes a dictionary of Middle Mongol names and titles (download the PDF from the link). The text is in German, but many etymologies are in English. The name list starts on p. 37 of the PDF; codes beginning with O indicate evidence from medieval sources, while codes beginning with E mark discussion of etymology. Excellent source for identifying correct transliterations and searching for names with specific meanings.
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Names of The Secret History of the Mongols, by H. Daveno.
- A list of names extracted from Paul Kahn, The Secret History of the
Mongols, the origin of Chingis Khan (San Francisco: North Point
Press, 1984), an edition of a 13th century manuscript. Another
translation of this source, Francis Woodman Cleaves, The Secret
History of the Mongols, was published by Harvard University Press,
1982. The web article includes masculine names, feminine names, and
titles; with some notes about meanings of names and about the
individuals identified. Note that at least some spellings in literary
Mongolian are ambiguous, and therefore some of these transliterations,
though perfectly acceptable, may be somewhat inaccurate representations
of the original pronunciations.
- Mongol Women's Names,
by Jessica Bonner.
- A short list of women's names culled from secondary sources ranging
from the 12th to the 17th century.
- Mongol Names in 13th Century Latin,
by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan
- A list of Mongol given names as recorded in a 13th century Latin
document.
- Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 3199
- Discusses ways to identify a man as the son of Arghun. This provides a starting point for building patronymics in Mongolian.
The Medieval Names Archive is published by
Ursula Georges. It was historically published by the Academy of Saint Gabriel.
Copyright on individual articles belongs to their authors.
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mongol.shtml