The following list presents the names of women in the Low Countries before 1150 AD. Germanic names have been sorted according to the first and second elements. Non-Germanic names are at the bottom of the list.
The column 'name' gives the most frequent spelling. Alternative spellings have been ordered alphabetically; various Latin endings (-em, -i, -ii, -ne, -um, -us, etc.) have been excluded. Various spellings of the character w (uu, uv, vu) have not been included in full: if more than one variant occurred, only the ‘w’ has been presented. Occasionally an incorrect spelling has been included between parentheses, for instance for Hildi-gardi: the Dutch countess Hildegard is mentioned in Liber traditionem from Ghent under the name Lietgardis (OHZ 43).

The column 'number' gives the total number of times each name was found for all centuries, regions and social classes combined.
Click here for an extended list with numbers with a breakdown per century, region, and social class.

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