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Shakespearean Makeovers for the Top 20 Baby Girl Names
| 28 November 2008 | Filed under Baby Names, Girl Names, Popular Baby Names, Unique Baby Names |
Wish the the top 20 names had a more Elizabethan ring to them? Well, wish no more! I did my best to match each of the most popular baby girl names with similar-sounding names from Shakespeare:
| Emily | Emilia Aemelia Hermione |
Othello; Winter’s Tale; Two Noble Kinsmen Comedy of Errors Winter’s Tale |
| Isabella | Isabella Dionyza Ursula |
Measure for Measure Pericles, Prince of Tyre Much Ado About Nothing |
| Emma | Anne | Merry Wives of Windsor; Henry VIII; Richard III |
| Ava | Viola Valeria |
Twelfth Night Coriolanus |
| Madison | Miranda Rosaline |
The Tempest Love’s Labor’s Lost; Romeo and Juliet |
| Sophia | Phebe Bianca |
As You Like It Othello; Taming of the Shrew |
| Olivia | Olivia Octavia Ophelia Lavinia |
Twelfth Night Antony and Cleopatra Hamlet Titus Andronicus |
| Abigail | Imogen Agrippa Margaret |
Cymbeline Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus Much Ado About Nothing |
| Hannah | Helena Hermia Helen |
All’s Well That Ends Well; Midsummer Night’s Dream Midsummer Night’s Dream Troilus and Cressida; Cymbeline |
| Elizabeth | Elizabeth Eleanor |
Henry VI; Richard III Henry VI; King John |
| Addison | Adriana Diana Desdemona Rosalind |
Comedy of Errors All’s Well That Ends Well; Pericles, Prince of Tyre Othello As You Like It |
| Samantha | Tamora Katherina Paulina |
Titus Andronicus Taming of the Shrew Winter’s Tale |
| Ashley | Audrey Portia Luciana |
As You Like It Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar Comedy of Errors |
| Alyssa | Narissa Jessica Cressida |
Merchant of Venice Merchant of Venice Troilus and Cressida |
| Mia | Maria Marina Mariana |
Twelfth Night; Love’s Labor’s Lost Pericles, Prince of Tyre All’s Well That Ends Well; Measure for Measure |
| Chloe | Hero Cordelia |
Much Ado About Nothing King Lear |
| Natalie | Nell Juliet Perdita Lucetta |
Henry IV; Henry V; Merry Wives of Windsor Romeo and Juliet Winter’s Tale Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| Sarah | Silvia Celia |
Two Gentlemen of Verona As You Like It |
| Alexis | Alice Thaisa Beatrice |
Henry V; Merry Wives of Windsor Pericles, Prince of Tyre Much Ado About Nothing |
| Grace | Blanche Gertrude |
King John Hamlet |
Please note that these are by no means equivalents–in fact, some of my “matches” don’t match at all. :) But I did as well as I could using about three-quarters of all the female characters mentioned by Shakespeare.
(And, if you were curious about the names Dionyza and Thaisa, as I was…they seem to be based on Dionysus and Thaïs.)
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