Play Names for Girls

There are 33 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 2007, followed in descending order by Julia (English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish), Jessica (English and German), Jennifer (English and German), Amanda (English, Finnish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), Angelica (German, English, Italian, and Romanian), Gloria (English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), and Annabella (English, German, and Italian). 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), Deirdre (English and Irish), Gwendolen (English and Welsh), Imogen (English), Livia (English, German, and Italian), and Lucrecia (English).

Play names are popular as baby girl names. The names' popularity increased from the 1930s up to the 1980s. Their usage peaked in 1981 with 8.583% of baby girls being given Play names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 13 Play names. The names have slipped in popularity since then. In 2007, their total usage was 2.032% with 14 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 0.7338%.

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Abigail 8 ... my father rejoices, ... Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Ladie ...

Amanda 112 ... lovable ... for a character in the play Love's Last Shift ...

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

Angelica 234 ... angelic, like an angel; ... in William Congreve's play Love for Love (1695). ...

Annabella 568 ... 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 ...

Blanche ... white, bright, beautiful ... in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named ...

Candida ... white ... the George Bernard Shaw play Candida (1894) ...

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

Claribel ... clear, bright, famous ... Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611), and ...

Deirdre ... raging, tempestuous ...Synge's play Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910) ...

Gloria 449 ... glory ... the George Bernard Shaw play You Never Can Tell ...

Gwendolen ... white circle, moon ... in the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being ...

Imogen ... daughter, girl; innocent ... William Shakespeare play Cymbeline (1609) ...

Jennifer 64 ... white, fair, blessed, ... the George Bernard Shaw play The Doctor's Dilemma ...

Jessica 42 ... God beholds, foresight ... of Shylock in his play The Merchant of Venice ...

Julia 34 ... Jupiter's child, downy ... in the Shakespeare play Two Gentlemen of Verona ...

Livia ... bluish, lead-colored; ... the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet ...

Lucrecia ... in the Shakespeare play The Rape of Lucrece ...