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I've gone through the list of named nobles we know of of the Byzantine Empire between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, to find out surnames and frequencies of first names. I thought I'd share the results here, as something that should be quite useful for writers of Byzantine TLs.

The thing that strikes me most is the conservatism when it comes to female names!

MALE NAMES
Adralestos 1
Adrianos 2
Alexandros 3
Alexios 28
Anastasios 1
Andreas 1
Andronikos 17
Antonios 2
Bardas 1
Basileios 6
Damianos 3
Demetrios 10
Epifanios 1
Eugenios 1
Eumathios 1
Eustathios 4
Euthymios 2
Filetos 1
Georgios 10
Gregorios 9
Ioannes 42
Ioseph 1
Isaakios 8
Katakalon 2
Konstantinos 32
Leon 15
Makarios 1
Manouil 17
Mathaios 1
Mikhael 35
Nikeforos 17
Niketas 6
Nikolaos 6
Pankratios 1
Paulos 2
Petros 1
Romanos 5
Samouil 1
Simeon 2
Stephanos 3
Theodoros 27
Theodoulos 1
Theognostos 2
Theofanes 2
Theofilaktos 3
Theofilos 1
Thomas 4

FEMALE NAMES
Agatha 2
Anna 13
Danielis 1
Eirene 16
Eufrosyne 4
Eudokia 3
Euprepia 1
Helene 3
Kyriake 2
Maria 9
Martha 2
Philippa 1
Pulcheria 1
Simonis 1
Symphrosyne 1
Theodora 13
Theodosia 3
Theofano 2
Xene 1
Zoe 3

SURNAMES
Akropolites
Anemas
Angelos
Asanes
Batatzes
Bourtzes
Choniates
Chryselios
Dalassenos
Doukas
Euforbenos
Gabras
Iasites
Kalekas
Kamateros
Kamytzes
Kantakouzenos
Karantenos
Kastamonites
Keroularios
Kinnamos
Komnenos
Kontostefanos
Laskaris
Makrembolites
Mavrozomes
Metochites
Mouzalon
Palaiologos
Pegonites
Philanthropenos
Psellos
Strategopoulos
Synadenos
Syrgiannes
Tarchaneiotes
Taronites
Tornikes
Tsamplakos
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