Names From Shakespeare

This list of names will help you brainstorm name possibilities. Click on a name to read about its origin and meaning.

• Boys
• Romeo and Juliet Abraham
• As You Like It Adam
• Love's Labor's Lost Adriano
• Troilus and Cressida Agamemnon
• The Tempest Alonso
• As You Like It Amiens
• Macbeth Angus
• The Winter's Tale Archidamus
• The Comedy of Errors Balthazar
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V Bardolph
• The Merchant of Venice Bassanio
• King Henry VI Bassett
• Henry V Bates
• Much Ado About Nothing Benedick
• Love's Labor's Lost Boyet
• Titus Andronicus Caius
• The Winter's Tale Camillo
• Othello Cassio
• Julius Caesar Cato
• Titus Andronicus Chiron
• Julius Caesar Cicero
• Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure Claudio
• Pericles Cleon
• Much Ado About Nothing Conrade
• Love's Labor's Lost Costard
• Henry VIII Cromwell
• King Lear Curan
• The Taming of the Shrew Curtis
• The Winter's Tale Dion
• Macbeth Donalbain
• The Comedy of Errors Dromio
• Love's Labor's Lost Dumaine
• Macbeth Duncan
• King Lear Edgar
• Pericles Escanes
• Twelfth Night Fabian
• The Merry Wives of Windsor Falstaff (Sir John)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor Fenton
• The Tempest, Love's Labor's Lost Ferdinand
• Twelfth Night Feste
• The Merry Wives of Windsor Ford
• Hamlet, The Tempest Francisco
• Antony and Cleopatra Gallus
• The Taming of the Shrew Gremio
• Henry VIII Griffith
• Hamlet Guildenstern
• Hamlet Hamlet
• Troilus and Cressida Hector
• Hamlet Horatio
• Cymbeline Iachima
• Othello Iago
• Henry V Jamy
• Julius Caesar Julius Caesar
• Hamlet Laertes
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona Launce
• Romeo and Juliet Laurence (Friar)
• Macbeth Lennox
• The Winter's Tale Leontes
• Love's Labor's Lost Longaville
• The Merchant of Venice Lorenzo
• Measure for Measure Lucio
• A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander
• Macbeth Macbeth
• Macbeth Macduff
• Henry V Macmorris
• Hamlet Marcellus
• Antony and Cleopatra Mardian
• Antony and Cleopatra Mark Antony
• Troilus and Cressida Menelaus
• Romeo and Juliet Montague
• Othello Montano
• Love's Labor's Lost Nathaniel
• Troilus and Cressida Nestor
• A Midsummer Night's Dream Oberon
• Julius Caesar Octavius
• As You Like It Orlando
• Hamlet Osric
• Othello Othello
• Troilus and Cressida Pandarus
• Antony and Cleopatra Philo
• Julius Caesar Pindarus
• Troilus and Cressida Priam
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona Proteus
• A Midsummer Night's Dream Quince
• Titus Andronicus Quintus
• Hamlet Reynaldo
• Romeo and Juliet Romeo
• Macbeth Ross
• The Merry Wives of Windsor Rugby
• Romeo and Juliet Sampson
• The Tempest, Twelfth Night Sebastian
• Macbeth Seyton
• Julius Caesar Strato
• A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus
• Timon of Athens Timon
• Coriolanus, Timon of Athens Titus
• The Taming of the Shrew Tranio
• Romeo and Juliet Tybalt
• Troilus and Cressida Ulysses
• Antony and Cleopatra Varrius
• Much Ado About Nothing Verges
• As You Like It William

• Girls
• The Comedy of Errors Adriana
• The Comedy of Errors Aemilia
• Henry IV Alice
• Troilus and Cressida Andromache
• The Merry Wives of Windsor Anne Page
• As You Like It Audrey
• Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice
• The Taming of the Shrew, Othello Bianca
• Julius Caesar Calpurnia
• Troilus and Cressida Cassandra
• As You Like It Celia
• The Tempest Ceres
• Antony and Cleopatra Charmian
• Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra
• King John Constance
• King Lear Cordelia
• Troilus and Cressida Cressida
• Othello Desdemona
• All's Well That Ends Well, Pericles Diana
• Pericles Dionyza
• The Winter's Tale Dorcas
• The Winter's Tale, Othello Emilia
• Measure for Measure Francisca
• Hamlet Gertrude
• King Lear Goneril
• Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline Helen
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well Helena
• A Midsummer Night's Dream Hermia
• The Winter's Tale Hermione
• Much Ado About Nothing Hero
• A Midsummer Night's Dream Hippolyta
• Cymbeline Imogen
• Antony and Cleopatra Iras
• The Tempest Iris
• Measure for Measure Isabella
• The Merchant of Venice Jessica
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona Julia
• Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure Juliet
• The Tempest Juno
• The Taming of the Shrew Katharina
• Titus Andronicus Lavinia
• The Comedy of Errors Luce
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona Lucetta
• The Comedy of Errors Luciana
• Pericles Lychorinda
• Much Ado About Nothing Margaret
• Twelfth Night Maria
• All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure Mariana
• Pericles Marina
• The Tempest Miranda
• The Winter's Tale Mopsa
• The Merchant of Venice Nerissa
• Antony and Cleopatra Octavia
• Twelfth Night Olivia
• Hamlet Ophelia
• Henry VIII Patience
• The Winter's Tale Paulina
• The Winter's Tale Perdita
• As You Like It Phebe
• Timon of Athens Phrynia
• The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar Portia
• King Lear Regan
• As You Like It Rosalind
• Romeo and Juliet Rosaline
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona Silvia
• Titus Andronicus Tamora
• Pericles Thaisa
• Timon of Athens Timandra
• A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania
• Much Ado About Nothing Ursula
• Coriolanus Valeria
• Twelfth Night Viola
• All's Well That Ends Well Violenta
• Coriolanus Virgilia
• Coriolanus Volumnia