Can you think of any?
[name]Guinevere[/name]
[name]Isolde[/name]
[name]Adelaide[/name]
[name]Bridget[/name]
[name]Leonardo[/name]
Nicolaus
[name]Fernando[/name]
Godric
[name]Ambrose[/name]
[name]Johannes[/name]
[name]Beryn[/name]
[name]Tobias[/name]
[name]Julian[/name]
Not all are renaissance period but they remind me of it
Isaure
Aliénore
Aenor
Berenice
Catherine
Euphemie/Euphemia
Euphrasie
Ysaline
Salome
Isidore
Gabriel
Emmanuel
Sebastien
Lorenzo
Raphaël
Aristus
Thibault
Archibald
Calixte (I love this but for a girl)
Theophile
I like [name]Tristan[/name] for a boy.
In the Rennaisance - especially in [name]Italy[/name] and [name]France[/name] - aristocratic, literate people started reviving names from Ancient Greek and [name]Rome[/name], many of which hadn’t been used for centuries. You can see this pattern in European royal families - suddenly there were Princes and Princesses named [name]Diana[/name] and [name]Hercules[/name].
examples:
[name]Achilles[/name]
Aglaé (Aglaia)
Athénaïs
[name]Alexander[/name]
[name]Artemisia[/name]
[name]Augustus[/name]
[name]Aurelius[/name]
[name]Claudia[/name]
[name]Cosmo[/name]
[name]Caesar[/name]
[name]Diana[/name]
Europa
[name]Flora[/name]
[name]Ginevra[/name]
[name]Hannibal[/name]
[name]Helen[/name]
Hippolyta
[name]Horace[/name]
[name]Hector[/name]
[name]Julius[/name]
[name]Leo[/name]
[name]Laetitia[/name]
[name]Laura[/name]
[name]Livia[/name]
[name]Lucretia[/name]
[name]Minerva[/name]
[name]Penelope[/name]
[name]Orlando[/name]
[name]Olympia[/name]
Polyxena
[name]Pompey[/name]
[name]Scipio[/name]
Sophonisba
[name]Tullia[/name]
Vespasian
[name]Victoria[/name]
Of course, keep in mind that for every [name]Achilles[/name] there were twenty Johns. Most of these wouldn’t be very realistic in your typical English village.
@sugarplumfairy - We seem to have very similar name taste, I love [name]Ginevra[/name] and I’m happy to see someone else likes Athénaïs!! I’m still trying to convince my husband to let me use it.
Typing on my phone please excuse errors or autocorrections