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Einger

Discussion of the name

Einger is a masculine name of uncertain derivation.  Von Feilitzen (1937: 246) regarded it as a Continental Germanic name *Einger but noted that no such name was recorded; alternatives might be an Old Danish *Enger or an Old Norse *Eingeirr, from ein ‘one, alone, single’ and geirr ‘spear’, for which there is at least some indirect East Scandinavian evidence (cf. Forssner 1916: 66).

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Einger 1, a catch-all for occurrences in DB.

Bibliography

Forssner 1916: Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916)

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Eingar

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Einger

  Phillimore edition: Eingar

  Alecto edition: Eingar

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 37,2	Vill Charndon	DB Spelling Eingar	Holder 1066 Einger 'of Charndon'	Lord 1066 Harold, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ralph de Fougères	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 10.00	1066 Value 9.00	1086 Value 8.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Einger 2 - Einger ‘of Charndon’ (Bucks.), fl. 1066