There are 66 Play names for baby girls.
Play names are popular as baby girl names. The names' popularity increased from the 1950s up to the 1980s. Their usage peaked in 1982 with 9.275% of baby girls being given Play names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 27 Play names. The names have slipped in popularity since then. In 2011, their total usage was 2.732% with 28 Play names listed among the top 1000. Among all Play names, Abigail (English, German, and Hebrew) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #7 and a usage of 0.6847%.
WORD/MEANING MATCH:
Lila  163 | play, amusement; intoxication, wine; lily; weak, poor; delight; the lilac flower; the color lilac; to tease, to flirt ... |
DESCRIPTION MATCH:
Abigail  7 | my father rejoices, joy of my father ... Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Ladie ... |
Alice  142 | of a noble kind; noble, honorable; ... in Shakespeare's play Henry V (1599) as the ... |
Amanda  226 | lovable ... for a character in the play Love's Last Shift ... |
| Aminta | protector, defender; faithful, truthful, trustworthy ... known by the pastoral play Aminta (1573) by the ... |
Angelica  373 | angelic, like an angel; messenger ... in William Congreve's play Love for Love (1695). ... |
Anitra  | God was gracious, God has shown ... |
Annabella  328 | in John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore ... |
Aretha  | excellence, virtue ... Beaumont and Fletcher play Philaster (1608-) ... |
| Aspasia | welcome one ... Beaumont and Fletcher play The Maid's Tragedy ... |
Audrey  43 | noble strength ... Shakespeare's pastoral play As You Like It (1599), ... |
Beatrice  707 | traveler, pilgrim, bringer of joy ... witty character in his play Much Ado About Nothing ... |
Berenice  | bearer of victory; bearer of victory, ... by the Jean Racine play Bérénice (1670). ... |
Blanche  | white, bright, beautiful; inner ... in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named ... |
Candida  | white ... the George Bernard Shaw play Candida (1894) ... |
Cassandra  411 | shining upon man; protrude, man ... William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida ... |
Celia  735 | heaven; sky, heaven; blind; heavenly, ... in Shakespeare's play As You Like It (1623) ... |
| Charmian | delight; carol; charm; coral; maiden, ... Cleopatra's maid in the play Antony and Cleopatra ... |
Claribel  | clear, bright, famous ... Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611), and ... |
| Cleopatra | father's glory ... by Shakespeare in his play, Antony and Cleopatra ... |
