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Man

Discussion of the name

Man is an Old Danish masculine name either originating as a byname derived from mann ‘man’ or as a loan from Continental Germanic (von Feilitzen 1937: 324; Fellows Jensen 1968: 194-5); the DB form cannot formally be distinguished from that for the cognate Old English name Mann, but ON Man is presumed here because it occurs in association with other Scandinavian names.

There are 51 entries in the PASE corpus for Man, all of them representing moneyers active between 839 and 1066.

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

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: Man

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Man(n)

  Phillimore edition: Man

  Alecto edition: Mann

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 Yorkshire	Phil. ref. 14E43	Vill Old Ellerby	DB Spelling Man	Holder 1066 Man 'of Ellerby'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Drew de la Beuvrière	1086 Subtenant Theobald 'of Ellerby'	Fiscal Value 0.80	1066 Value 0.40	1086 Value 0.10	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Man 52 - Man ‘of Ellerby’ (Yorkshire), fl. 1066