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Anglo-Saxons who refuse to die Other Anglo-Saxon male names include Alwin, Chad, Cuthbert, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Godwin, Harold and Wilfred. Interestingly, Edward, Alfred and Wilfred are still popular. There aren’t as many recognisable female names, but they include Audrey, Edith, Ethel, Hilda and Mildred.
By contrast, the names of the Norman conquerors quickly became popular, and remain common to this day – William, Robert, Henry, Alice, Matilda.
Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to, or descent from, the Angles, England, English culture, the English people or the English language, such as in the term Anglo-Saxon language. The word is derived from Anglia, the Latin name for England and still used in the modern name for its eastern region, East Anglia.
The personal name Michael is ultimately derived from a Hebrew name, meaning “Who is like God”. In other cases the surname Mitchell is derived from the Middle English (Saxon and Anglian) words michel, mechel, and muchel, meaning “big”.
The origins of the name Everett are with the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from the Germanic personal name Eberhard. Everett is a patronymic surname, which belongs to the category of hereditary surnames.
White is a nickname meaning ‘of fair complexion’, from a person with pale skin. Variants include Whyte. This name is of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout the above islands.
Michael is a masculine given name derived from the Hebrew phrase מי כאל mī kāʼēl, ‘Who [is] like-El’, in Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (Mīkhāʼēl [miχaˈʔel])….Michael.
Gender | Male |
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Word/name | Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל / מיכאל (Mikha’el) |
Ethel (also æthel) is an Old English word meaning “noble”. It is frequently attested as the first element in Anglo-Saxon names, both masculine and feminine, e.g. Æthelhard, Æthelred, Æthelwulf; Æthelburg, Æthelflæd, Æthelthryth (Audrey).
Anglo-Saxon names were used by the Anglo-Saxons who inhabited ancient England. See also about Germanic names.
The reasons for these changes from Anglo-Saxon to Norman names are not hard to find. First, King William replaced virtually all the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy with Norman lords.
Though Bede names them by subtribes, Dorothy Whitelock cites evidence that even by his time most members of this Germanic group thought of themselves as Angelcynn, the English people. I omitted names where it was unclear whether the individual named was a member of this group by birth, such as when a bishop was appointed to an Anglo-Saxon diocese.
The term Anglo-Saxon is popularly used for the language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons in England and southeastern Scotland from at least the mid-5th century until the mid-12th century.