Play Names

23 Play names that mean play for girls, listing Play baby names 1-10. Blythe, Camellia and Camilla are popular names. Alcestis, Amadea, Aminta, Ariadne, Calpurnia, Corisande and Cymbeline 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".

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). Literary ... [29]

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

Cymbeline ... The title of one of Shakespeare's lesser-known plays ... [1]

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