Tale Names

18 Tale names that mean tale for girls, listing Tale baby names 11-18. Mavis and Sabrina are popular names. Mehitabel, Perdita, Phaedra, Sheherezade, Thisbe and Tristana are uncommon names. View Tale baby names for name meanings, or search other baby names.

Mavis ... author of "The Canterbury Tales".

Mehitabel ... Biblical name used by writer Don Marquis in his tales of the great friends "archy and mehitabel" ... [6]

Perdita ... Shakespeare created this name for a young heroine in "The Winter's Tale" ...

Phaedra ... The tale of Phaedra's dark and guilty love has inspired playwrights from ancient to modern times. ... [7]

Sabrina ... Mythology: the name of a Celtic maiden in a Welsh tale ... [11]

Sheherezade ... Sheherazade tells one tale to her royal husband each night ... [4]

Thisbe ... Mythology name. Ovid's "Metamorphoses" tells the tragic tale of the lovers Pyramus and Tisbe ...

Tristana ... The tale has been told in an epic poem by Tennyson and an opera by Wagner. [2]

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