Heroine Names

63 Heroine names that mean heroine for girls, listing Heroine baby names 21-40. Clelia, Consuelo, Cora, Dorothy, Flora, Gabrielle, Giselle, Hester, Holly, Isabel, Janice, Joan and Judith are popular names. Cressida, Desdemona, Gavrila, Halfrida, Imogen, Jemima and Jerusha are uncommon names. View Heroine baby names for name meanings, or search other baby names.

Clelia ... A feisty heroine from legendary Roman history who after having been given by the Romans to the Etruscans as a hostage ... [1]

Consuelo ... The heroine, a gypsy ... [6]

Cora ... An invented name coined by American writer James Fenimore Cooper for the dark-haired heroine in "The Last of the Mohicans" (1826) ... [58]

Cressida ... Cressida is the heroine and Trojan princess of the tale "Troilus and Cressida" that has been told by Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare ... [2]

Desdemona ... Desdemona is the beautiful, innocent heroine ... [1]

Dorothy ... the heroine of Frank Baum's "The Wonderful World of Oz" ... [40]

Flora ... Flora Macdonald was a Scottish heroine who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape the English ... [31]

Gabrielle ... "Heroine of God." ... [26]

Gavrila Variant of Gabrielle (Hebrew) "heroine of God". [3]

Giselle ... Name of a famous 19th-century ballet whose heroine is a peasant girl ... [10]

Halfrida ... "Peaceful heroine; peaceful home."

Hester ... Hester Prynne is the much put-upon heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlett Letter". [4]

Holly ... Holly Golightly is the heroine in Truman Capote's nove "Breakfast at Tiffany's" ... [7]

Imogen ... the name has connotations of the perfect heroine as used in Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline" and Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Heart of Midlothian" ... [7]

Isabel ... Henry James named the heroine of his "Portrait of a Lady" Isabel Archer ... [43]

Janice ... Probably first coined as the name of the heroine of the novel "Janice Meredith" (1899) by Paul Leicester Ford ... [19]

Jemima ... and Beatrix Potter's foolish heroine in "Jemima Puddleduck". [8]

Jerusha ... James Michener used the name for the missionary heroine in his novel "Hawaii". [3]

Joan ... as well as a religious heroine ... [6]

Judith ... Judith is a Jewish heroine who incited the Hebrew army to victory over the Assyrians ... [16]

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