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Does anyone know old english names?

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I'm doing a project for lit/lang and i need to come up with an old english name.preferably in the 1600 time period. i need a last and first name.

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  1. Albert Einstein?

    John Adams

    Anhaiser Bush

    Miller LIght

    Bud Wiser


  2. my name is Cothran said to be derived from Cochrane which

    you might use either one but the name goes back to before the Norman Conquest so its a good one to use for this purpose ..

  3. See those Hollywood movies based of older stories. They have a lot in them, starting from stone age.


  4. Well, 1600 is considered the Modern English Period; Old English ends with Chaucer and Middle English ends with the printing press. Be that as it may, here are two English names from Shakespeare, Henry V Act IV Scene 8 (You might be able to find these two names in any modern phone book):

    Richard Ketly, Davy Gam

    Here's the original context:

    Where is the number of our English dead?

    (Herald shews him another paper)

    Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,

    Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:

    None else of name; and of all other men

    But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;

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