Play Names

25 Play names that mean play for girls, listing Play baby names 1-20. Blythe, Camellia, Camilla, Candida, Charmaine, Gigi, Marina, Olivia and Ophelia are popular names. Alcestis, Amadea, Aminta, Ariadne, Calpurnia, Cleone, Corisande, Electra, Galatea, Imogen and Iphigenia are uncommon names. View Play baby names for name meanings, search Play names for boys, or search other baby names.

Alcestis ... In Euripides' play of the same name ...

Amadea ... given great prominence by Peter Shaffer's play and film. [2]

Aminta ... Aminta was the heroine of a well-known pastoral play by the Italian poet Tortquato Tasso (16th century) of the Renaissance. [5]

Ariadne ... Also the subject and title of a Richard Strauss play ... [14]

Blythe ... "Hail to thee, blithe spirit!" and Noel Coward's play "Blithe Spirit" ... [1]

Calpurnia ... who appears in Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar". Literary ...

Camellia ... Alexandre Dumas' famous 19th-century play "La Dame aux Camélias" was known in America as "Camille" ... [4]

Camilla ... The heroine of Alexandre Dumas's famous play "Camille" was actually named Marguerite (see Camellia) ... [38]

Candida ... This may have been inspired by George Bernard Shaw's play "Candida" (1897) ... [5]

Charmaine ... It was first invented for a 1924 play "What Price Glory?" by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings ... [27]

Cleone ... Racine used the name for Herminone's confidante in his 1667 play "Andromache" ... It was also used in English as the name of a 1758 play.

Corisande ... Disraeli laos used this name for a character in his play "Lothair" (1870). [3]

Electra ... Also the inspiration for Lavinia in Eugene O'Neill's trilogy of plays ... [6]

Galatea ... Shaw's play "Pygmalion" ... [2]

Gigi ... later made into an award-winning stage play and movie musical ... [2]

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]

Iphigenia ... There are plays inspired by this tale. [7]

Marina ... Shakespeare gave the name to Pericles' daughter in his play "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" ... [17]

Olivia ... Coined by Shakespeare as the name of a much-wooed aristocrat in his play "Twelfth Night" (1599) ... [24]

Ophelia ... Name of the unfortunate maiden who loved Hamlet in Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" ... [12]

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