There are 58 Play names for baby girls. Displayed on this page are Play names 1 to 20. Within these names, Abigail (English and German) was the most popular in 2008, followed in descending order by Audrey (English), Amanda (English, Finnish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), Lila (English and Indian), Angelica (English, German, Russian, Greek, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish), Cassandra (English and German), Alice (Czech, English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese), Annabella (English, German, and Italian), and Celia (English, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish). The unusual Play names are Aminta (English and Italian), Aretha (English), Aspasia (English, German, and Spanish), Blanche (English and French), Candida (English, German, and Italian), Charmian (English), Claribel (English), Cleopatra (English), Deirdre (English and Irish), Dolly (English), and Dorcas (English). 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 9.065% of baby girls being given Play names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 22 Play names. The names have slipped in popularity since then. In 2008, their total usage was 2.813% with 25 Play names listed among the top 1000. Among all Play names, Abigail (English and German) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #8 and a usage of 0.725%.
WORD/MEANING MATCH: Lila  179 | play, amusement; intoxication, ...Lila's meaning is play, amusement ... |
DESCRIPTION MATCH: Abigail  8 | my father rejoices, ... Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Ladie ... |
Alice  326 | of a noble kind ... in Shakespeare's play Henry V (1599) as the ... |
Amanda  138 | lovable ... for a character in the play Love's Last Shift ... |
| Aminta | protector, defender ... known by the pastoral play Aminta (1573) by the ... |
Angelica  257 | angelic, like an angel; ... in William Congreve's play Love for Love (1695). ... |
Annabella  589 | gracefully beautiful ... 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  44 | noble strength ... Shakespeare's pastoral play As You Like It (1599), ... |
Blanche  | white, bright, beautiful; ... in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named ... |
Candida  | white ... the George Bernard Shaw play Candida (1894) ... |
Cassandra  284 | shining upon man; protrude, ... William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida ... |
Celia  757 | heaven; sky, heaven; ... in Shakespeare's play As You Like It (1623) ... |
| Charmian | delight ... 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 ... |
Deirdre  | raging; broken-hearted ...Synge's play Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910) ... |
Dolly  | gift of god; pain; doll; pain; gift of god ... in Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker (1955) ... |
Dorcas  | gazelle, doe, roe ... Elizabethan era stage play The Merry Devil of ... |
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