There are 24 Play names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Play names 1 to 20. Alexander was the most popular among these names in 2008. The name is primarily used in Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic, and it was followed in popularity by the English Matthew, the English, German, Hebrew, and Polish Aaron, the Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Romanian, and Russian Adam, the English, French, and German Edgar, the Dutch, English, German, and Polish Fabian, the English, German, and Hebrew Ariel, and the English name, Eugene. The unusual Play names are Gerlach (Dutch and German), Ulick (Irish and English), Abner (English), Amyntor (Greek), Archibald (English and Scottish), Augustine (English), Benedict (English), Bertram (English and German), Boniface (English and French), Boris (German, Russian, and Slavic), Faustus (German), and Lancelot (English). Play names are popular baby names for boys. The names rose in popularity from the 1940s up to the 1980s. At the height of their usage in 1984, 5.432% of baby boys were given Play names. There were 10 Play names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Play names have since experienced a decline in frequency. In 2008, 10 Play names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 2.647%. Within all Play names, the Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic Alexander was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #6 and a usage of 0.8566%.
WORD/MEANING MATCH: | Gerlach | spear play ...The meaning of Gerlach is 'spear play'. ... |
| Ulick | playful heart; spirit ... roots, its meaning is playful heart; spirit play - ... |
DESCRIPTION MATCH: Aaron  50 | enlightened, exalted, ... Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus (1590-1594), ... |
Abner  | father of light, father ... O'Neill's trilogy play Mourning Becomes ... |
Adam  72 | man; to make ... the William Shakespeare play As You Like It (1599), ... |
Alexander  6 | defender of men ... William Shakespeare's play The History of Troilus ... |
| Amyntor | protector, defender ... Beaumont and Fletcher play The Maid's Tragedy ... |
Archibald  | truly brave ... in the John Osborne play The Entertainer ... |
Ariel  570 | lion of God ... spirit in Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). ... |
Augustine  | august, dignified, holy ... Sheridan's comedy play, The Rivals (1775). ... |
Benedict  | blessed ... the Shakespeare comedy play Much Ado about Nothing ... |
Bertram  | bright raven, wise person ... in Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends ... |
| Boniface | good fate, well-doer, ... by George Farquhar's play The Beaux' Stratagem ... |
Boris  | fight, battle; famous ... of Alexander Pushkin's play (1831) and Mussorgsky's ... |
Edgar  193 | wealthy spear, owner ... (1603-1606), as the play is set in an earlier ... |
Eugene  691 | well born, noble ... George Bernard Shaw's play Candida (1898) ... |
Fabian  288 | grower of beans ... William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night (1601). ... |
| Faustus | lucky, auspicious ... Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus (1604) ... |
| Lancelot | the servant ... in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice ... |
Matthew  10 | gift of Yahweh ... in Ben Jonson's comedy play Every Man in his Humour ... |
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