Shakespearean Makeovers for the Top 20 Baby Girl Names

Leave a comment | 28 November 2008

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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