High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Germanic names, inherited from the Suevi which settled Galicia and Northern Portugal in 409 CE, and also from Visigoths, Vandals, Franks and other Germanic peoples, were the most common names among Galician people during the Early and High Middle Ages. This article deals with the Germanic personal names recorded and used in Galicia, Northern Portugal, and in adjoining regions, in territories which belonged to the Suebic kingdom of Galicia, during the Early Middle Ages, since the settlement of the Suevi in 409 CE, and up to the 12th century.