Whether these names all actually ended in "a" is another matter, but it is clear that in many cases one may substitute "e" for "(i)a" and still have just as valid a name: Felicia => Felice Amicia => Amice (and later, Amy), etc.
You will note that many of the femine names end in "a", which is merely the most common nominative feminine ending. When the names were rendered into Latin in charters, often they were changed to make them fit the language. Names of great leaders or heroes (Constantine, Alexander, etc) seem to have also been used for males, though not as frequently as saints' names. You will notice the popularity of saints' and Biblical names for both sexes. The male names Roger and Simon and the female names Juliana and Matilda are good examples of this while none of these names dropped completely out of use (though Matilda nearly did), they became far less frequent in later centuries after rivaling the Williams, Richards, Cecilys and Joans for popularity in the Anglo-Norman period. Furthermore, the popular names in the 13th century did not necessarily maintain their popularity in later years. While certain of these were more popular than others, they did not dominate naming practices to the extent that names such as John, Thomas, Richard, and William for guys and Anne, Elizabeth, Cecily, and Margaret for girls did in later centuries. While this is indeed true for the later medieval period, the Anglo-Norman period (which lasted from the Conquest on down to the beginning of the fourteenth century or so) provided a much larger variety of available and relatively common personal names. It is a common misconception that medieval English naming practices centred on a relatively small number of personal names. Short Treatise on Anglo-Norman Personal Names
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