Baby Name List: 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