Comedy Names for Girls

There are 15 Comedy names for baby girls. Displayed on this page are Comedy names 1 to 15. Within these names, Olivia (English, German, and Italian) was the most popular in 2007, followed in descending order by Amanda (English, Finnish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), Sabrina (Czech, English, German, and Italian), Chelsea (English), Cecilia (English, Finnish, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish), Belinda (English, German, and Italian), Celia (English, Italian, and Spanish), Thalia (English), and Raina (Czech, German, Polish, Russian, and Slavic). The unusual Comedy names are Araminta (English), Constance (English and French), Irma (French, German, Italian, and Spanish), Rosalind (English), Silvia (English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), and Tracy (English).

Comedy names are rather popular as baby girl names. The names' popularity increased from the 1920s up to the 1980s. Their usage peaked in 1987 with 3.056% of baby girls being given Comedy names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 11 Comedy names. The names have slipped in popularity since then. In 2007, their total usage was 1.215% with 9 Comedy names listed among the top 1000. Among all Comedy names, Olivia (English, German, and Italian) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #7 and a usage of 0.7835%.

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Amanda 112 ... lovable ... character Amanda in his comedy Private Lives (1930), ...

Araminta ... in William Congreve's comedy The Old Bachelor ...

Belinda 629 ... beautiful snake; beautiful ... Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy The Provok'd Wife ...

Cecilia 274 ... blind ... Cardew in Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being ...

Celia 783 ... heaven; sky, heaven; ... in Ben Jonson's comedy Volpone (1606). ...

Chelsea 209 ... landing place for chalk ... US televesion sketch comedy Rowan & Martin's ...

Constance ... steadfast, constant ... of Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer ...

Irma ... immense, universal ... in the USA by the radio comedy My Friend Irma (1940s), ...

Olivia 7 ... olive tree ... of the countess in his comedy Twelfth Night (1601) ...

Raina 933 ... advice, decision, protection ... the George Bernard Shaw comedy play Arms and the Man ...

Rosalind ... horse shield of lime ... Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It (1599) ...

Sabrina 197 ... Fair (1953), a romantic comedy by Samuel A ...

Silvia ... woman of the woods ... such as the Shakespeare comedy Two Gentlemen of Verona ...

Thalia 815 ... to flourish, to blossom ... by Thalia, the muse of comedy in Greek mythology ...

Tracy ... place of Thracius; hunter; harvest; guardian; woman from Therasia ...