A rose by any other name...

[rainylondonight.livejournal.com]

What are some of your favourite Shakespearean names for a child?

Myself:

Ariel (The Tempest - though I would use this for a girl.)
Dion (A Winters Tale)
Hamlet (Hamlet... a guilty pleasure :P)
Hugh (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Oliver (As You Like It)
Robin (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Toby (Twelfth Night)

Hermione (A Winters Tale - this is my number one favourite girls name too.)
Bianca (Taming of the Shrew)
Celia (As You Like It)
Imogen (Cymbeline)
Isabella (Measure for Measure)
Ophelia (Hamlet)

Comments

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I love the name Bianca, though I usually don't think of the Shakespeare reference.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Rosalind
Bianca
Imogen
Helen/a
Ophelia
Juliet
Katharine (although, I prefer Katherine)
Viola
Iris

Caliban
Oliver
Edmund
Sebastian

[rainylondonight.livejournal.com]

Ah, I forgot Edmund. Love that one too.

[1842.livejournal.com]

love imogen!

[muggleish.livejournal.com]

I live Imogen and Ophelia. :)

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

I have always wanted two girls named Desdemona and Ophelia, but a lot of people hate the context. Whatever, they're gorgeous names.

I also adore Celia and Imogen, and the character of Hermione, though I don't think I'd use the name.

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

Oh and since I have other favourites:

Thisbe (Guilty pleasure, but I might actually use it. I think Diana sounds great with Thisbe)
Viola
Beatrice
Iris
Maria

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

I really like Viola and Thisbe (although I'd never use Thisbe) for girls, and I have to say Caliban is a guilty pleasure for a boy. I also like Ariel on a boy.

[forthemorrow.livejournal.com]

ooh and Viola too! ; )

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Caliban is a guilty pleasure for me too. : )

[forthemorrow.livejournal.com]

Fleance (Macbeth) is my favourite.

[ajsuram.livejournal.com]

Miranda (Tempest)
Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)

[fangirlism]

I actually don't have any, but I can't help but associate Hermione with Harry Potter and not Shakespeare, lol.

[rainylondonight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I think too. I used to worry about the constant references but then I figured, eh... I love Shakespeare and I love Harry Potter - so I'm not going to be particularly fussed where everyone thinks I got the name from, haha.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I couldn't even think of any of the top of my head, so I had to go find a list.

Orlando (As You Like It)
Duncan (Macbeth)
Paris (Romeo & Juliet)
Nathaniel (Taming of the Shrew)

Iris (The Tempest)
Juno (The Tempest)

I don't like any of them for Shakespeare and I don't associate them with him.

[brittmarie.livejournal.com]

Oliver & Celia are my favorites! I could deal with Ariel if I had to.

[wizened-cynic.livejournal.com]

Miranda
Viola

I always wanted two dogs so I could name them Benvolio and Malvolio.

[rainylondonight.livejournal.com]

Aw, what a good idea. I used to have too mice named Hamlet and Macbeth, hah. Tragedy mice!

[rainylondonight.livejournal.com]

*two mice.

[my-little-voice.livejournal.com]

Imogen
Ophelia
Audrey
Rosalind
Nell
Juliet(te)
Iris
Miranda
Helena

Sebastian