I thought I would do a list each week of names inspired by words from endangered or extinct languages. Here is a list of Anglo-Norman words that would make great names. These are hypothetical, not necessarily legitimate, (there are legitimate names mixed in) but what a great way to revive a dead language by using one of its words as a name.

If you are unfamiliar as to what Anglo-Norman is, here is a brief explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language

Male

• Adamant “diamond”
• Archal “copper”
• Arsun “cinder; ash”
• Aust “late summer”
• Aver “bird”
• Baudie “joy”
• Baron “man”
• Baume “balm”
• Boi “wisp of hay”
• Brander “to brighten; to become light”
• Burgeon “shoot; bud”
• Cane “duck”
• Cauber “to be to defend oneself”
• Chrestien “Christian”
• Clou “clove”
• Colum “dove”
• Corbin “raven”
• Devin “divine”
• Don “gift”
• Doinus “dun color”
• Dorer “golden”
• Glauc “greyish-yellow; yellow; orange”
• Gort “river”
• Guitun “young lad”
• Hanetun “drone bee”
• Herbe “grass”
• Hobyn “pony”
• Jouo “day”
• Lettrel “learned man”
• Mes “angel”
• Mortun, name of a type of bird that inhabited moorlands
• Mund “world”
• Munter “to rise into the sky”
• Neir “black”
• Orin “made of gold”
• Oscur “dark”
• Remis “pale”
• Sauz “willow”
• Sort “fate; destiny”
• Sunger “to dream”
• Tensor “treasure”
• Traire “to shoot an arrow”
• Trembler “aspen”
• Vereder “robin”
• Verdur “green”
• Versant “heavy rain”
• Vif “alive”

Female

• Adamantine “diamond”
• Agace “magpie”
• Aignelet “little lamb”
• Aingrele “St. Lucy Cherry tree”
• Alaute “lark”
• Alcanne “alkanet”
• Aleine “breath”
• Ameroke “mayweed”
• Amisté “affection; love”
• Amur/Amurette “love”
• Ancele “maiden”
• Anete/Anatin “duck”
• Angelot “cherub”
• Argentine “argentine lily”
• Aristologie “black briony”
• Aubespine “hawthorn”
• Aumone “charity”
• Avellane “hazelnut”
• Assida “ostrich”
• Aube “dawn”
• Avette “bee”
• Baette “little berry”
• Baie “berry”
• Bai “bay laurel”
• Balaustie “wild pomegrante flower”
• Bederne “wren”
• Belendin, name of a type of ginger
• Berbeiete “young lamb”
• Bliaine “briony”
• Blowet “hyacinth”
• Brin “small diamond”
• Brunet “brown”
• Burnette “hedge sparrow”
• Cabaline “ivy”
• Caladre, name of a type of bird that has been lost to translation
• Carole “song; to dance”
• Cendre “cinder; ash; Ash Wednesday”
• Cercele “teal duck”
• Chalandre, name of a type of lark
• Chançonele “little song”
• Chançunette “song”
• Chantelette “ditty”
• Chastein “chestnut color”
• Chele “bell”
• Cimbra “amber”
• Cirevere “service-tree”
• Clincel “river”
• Conchete “little sea shell”
• Coudraie “hazel thicket”
• Creance “belief”
• Cressant “waxing of the moon”
• Creterel “starling”
• Delice “delight”
• Denree “penny”
• Dité “song; melody”
• Do “doe”
• Doneison “gift”
• Dru “beloved; dear”
• Druerie “love”
• Dulcel/Ducet “sweet”
• Duz “pleasant; charming”
• Empenné “winged creature”
• Eruce “eglantine”
• Escarlaté “scarlet”
• Esmeraude/Meraude “emerald”
• Esté “summer”
• Esturial “north star”
• Fei “faith”
• Fenette “hay; straw”
• Flamesche “ember”
• Flamme “flame”
• Fresnele “ashweed”
• Fressun “knee holly”
• Fullica “coot”
• Garenne “game bird”
• Garinade “garnet; red crystal”
• Gemme “gemstone”
• Gernete “garnet”
• Gingembre “ginger”
• Gladene “iris”
• Glai “sword-grass”
• Glaiol “iris”
• Gaudine “ground ivy”
• Golde “marigold”
• Gramine “couch grass”
• Grue “bird”
• Gutiere “rain shower”
• Havene “haven; refuge”
• Helzan “sorrel brown”
• Ipia “scarlet pimpernel”
• Illirica “Illyrican iris”
• Ireos “fleur-de-lis”
• Jaglel “florentine iris”
• Jolivet “pretty”
• Jonet “St. John’s pear”
• Kendale, name of a green woollen cloth from Kendal (Cumbria)
• Kyriele “song of praise”
• Laurin “oil of bay laurel”
• Lavendule “lavender”
• Lazule “lapis lazuli”
• Lei “faith; religion”
• Letanie “April 25th, Letania Major”
• Leune “lioness”
• Levé “resurrection”
• Leveret “young hare”
• Liricam “pine resin”
• Loriole “golden oriol”
• Lumine “light”
• Lune “moon”
• Luur “light of heaven”
• Margerie “pearl”
• Marin “of the sea”
• Martagon, name of a type of lily
• Matiste “amethyst”
• Matutin/Matutinel “morning star”
• Mauve “sea-gull”
• Mauviz “songthrush”
• Mayyen “maythe camomile”
• Mede, name of a type of green precious stone
• Merlet “martlet”
• Mé “sea”
• Mespili “medlar fruit”
• Mestrie “wisdom”
• Milelott “sweet clover”
• Mirabille “miracle”
• Mirabolan “mirabelle tree”
• Mirtin “of myrtle”
• Morele “belladonna; deadly nightshade”
• Muget “nutmeg”
• Naisel “young pearl”
• Neif “snow”
• Nettesse “purity”
• Niule “cloud”
• Noiselle “hazelnut”
• Noué “Christmas”
• Nue “firmament; sky”
• Nuette “small cloud”
• Orchel “violet”
• Ortolane “garden mallow”
• Palea “camel-hay”
• Papirun, name of a red gemstone
• Pauline “climbing evergreen ivy”
• Pédeleun “lady’s mantle”
• Peluette “mouse ear hawkweed”
• Penne “feather”
• Peperonge “briar fruit”
• Perdrice “female partrige”
• Perdrizel “young partrige”
• Pere “jewel”
• Persan “purple; dark blue”
• Persica “peach”
• Pica “woodpecker”
• Plovel “southwest wind”
• Pomice/Poncete “pumice”
• Prael “small meadow”
• Prasie “green quartz”
• Primerole “primrose”
• Prunele “sloe; small plum”
• Prunette “plum”
• Pume “apple”
• Purprine “purple dye, purple”
• Raînotte “frog”
• Reial “royal”
• Reverie “dream”
• Reyel “sconce”
• Rikelot “magpie”
• Roele “wheel of fortune”
• Rosemarin “rosemary”
• Rugerole “red poppy”
• Runce “bramble”
• Russelet “brook”
• Russignole “nightingale”
• Sephoine “Christmas rose”
• Serein “night air”
• Seri “agreeable”
• Silenite “moonstone”
• Solé “sun”
• Sussie “marigold”
• Tempré “serene”
• Tiphanie “Epiphany”
• Tresbel “very beautiful”
• Urmel “young elm”
• Varole “catterpiller of the cabbage butterfuly”
• Veire “Springtime”
• Verglace “black ice”
• Yarou “yarrow”