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Apart from the names of these new ethnic groups and the previous tribal names they comprise, the onomastics of the Early Franks includes a large number of personal names descending from the [[Proto-Germanic]] period. These anthroponyms mainly, but not exclusively, belong to aristocratic persons who appear in history because of their roles in it. The names appear in sources for the entire range of Germanics, although a large percentage of them, due to the pre-eminence of the Franks in history, are Frankish.
Josef Van Loon, the linguist, provides a credible partial etymology for Genobaud as follows. Most of the anthroponyms surviving from the Frankish Period, or Early Middle Ages, of northern France and the Lowlands, are compounds of two elements, which Van Loon calls two-stem. The stem idea means that each element can vary on a stem. The elements are Germanic. For example, *Hludo-vechus develops from a prince named "warrior-of-fame" to an ordinary person named Louis or Lewis.
Van Loon, the linguist, focuses on the -baud element by collecting -baud names in a single group: Bainobaudes, Balchobaudes, Gennobaudes, Hariobaudes, Mallobaudes, Merobaudes. These are all "the names of Franks who held high offices in the Roman army". In addition a Frank called simply Baudo "was consul in the year 385." Deducing a probable meaning of commander for the baud-element he proposes a [[proto-Germanic]] original of *baudiz, an [[Indo-European ablaut|ablaut]] variation of the root of Dutch gebieder, "commander."<ref>{{harvnb|Van Loon|2016|p=55}}</ref> The source of geno- remains uncertain.▼
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{{see also|Name of the Franks}}
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