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Play Names for Girls

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%.

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WORD/MEANING MATCH:

Lila Popularity Trend of Lila
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 179 179 play, amusement; intoxication, ...Lila's meaning is play, amusement ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Abigail Popularity Trend of Abigail
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 8 8 my father rejoices, ... Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Ladie ...

Alice Popularity Trend of Alice
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 326 326 of a noble kind ... in Shakespeare's play Henry V (1599) as the ...

Amanda Popularity Trend of Amanda
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 138 138 lovable ... for a character in the play Love's Last Shift ...

Aminta protector, defender ... known by the pastoral play Aminta (1573) by the ...

Angelica Popularity Trend of Angelica
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 257 257 angelic, like an angel; ... in William Congreve's play Love for Love (1695). ...

Annabella Popularity Trend of Annabella
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 589 589 gracefully beautiful ... in John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore ...

Aretha Popularity Trend of Aretha
from 1900 to 2008. excellence, virtue ... Beaumont and Fletcher play Philaster (1608-) ...

Aspasia welcome one ... Beaumont and Fletcher play The Maid's Tragedy ...

Audrey Popularity Trend of Audrey
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 44 44 noble strength ... Shakespeare's pastoral play As You Like It (1599), ...

Blanche Popularity Trend of Blanche
from 1900 to 2008. white, bright, beautiful; ... in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named ...

Candida Popularity Trend of Candida
from 1900 to 2008. white ... the George Bernard Shaw play Candida (1894) ...

Cassandra Popularity Trend of Cassandra
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 284 284 shining upon man; protrude, ... William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida ...

Celia Popularity Trend of Celia
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 757 757 heaven; sky, heaven; ... in Shakespeare's play As You Like It (1623) ...

Charmian delight ... Cleopatra's maid in the play Antony and Cleopatra ...

Claribel Popularity Trend of Claribel
from 1900 to 2008. clear, bright, famous ... Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611), and ...

Cleopatra father's glory ... by Shakespeare in his play, Antony and Cleopatra ...

Deirdre Popularity Trend of Deirdre
from 1900 to 2008. raging; broken-hearted ...Synge's play Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910) ...

Dolly Popularity Trend of Dolly
from 1900 to 2008. gift of god; pain; doll; pain; gift of god ... in Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker (1955) ...

Dorcas Popularity Trend of Dorcas
from 1900 to 2008. gazelle, doe, roe ... Elizabethan era stage play The Merry Devil of ...


Popularity Trend
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from 1900 to 2006Variant Popularity Chart
for Play Names
in 2006