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17 Tale names that mean tale for boys, listing Tale baby names 1-17. Bruce, Hans, Merlin, Rory and Tristan are popular names. Androcles, Daphnis, Dartagnan, Finbar, Percival, Rip, Salem, Shiva, Sumner, Tamerlane, Theseus and Usher are uncommon names. View Tale baby names for name meanings, search Tale names for girls, or search other baby names.


Androcles ... Shaw later used this tale for a play about Christian faith. [1]

Bruce ... The tale of its most famous member ... [2]

Daphnis Greek mythology: Daphnis appears in two tales as a love-struck shepherd ...

Dartagnan ... Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling tale "The Three Musketeers" was based on the real D'artagnan's memoirs.

Finbar ... One tale tells of Saint Finbar crossing the Irish Sea on horseback ... [7]

Hans ... The diminutive Hansel is familiar because of the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" ... [6]

Merlin ... Mythology: Arthurian tales describe Merlin as the wizard who was King Arthur's mentor. Myrddin ... [7]

Percival ... Wagner's opera Parsifal is based on this knight's tale. [10]

Rip ... Rip van Winkle is the famous fictitious man who slept for twenty years in Washington Irving's tale.

Rory ... tales of Rory O'More ... [5]

Salem ... site of the Salem witch trials and setting of Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale ...

Shiva ... and he is given prominence in many legends and folk tales.

Sumner ... In Geoffrey Chaucer's well-known "Canterbury Tales" ...

Tamerlane ... and his tale was retold by 16th-century English poet Christopher Marlowe as a romantic tragedy ... [9]

Theseus ... Theseus is featured in several classical Greek tragedies as well as in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream".

Tristan ... Tristan (sometimes called Tristram) was a Knight of the Round Table and the tragic hero of the medieval tale "Tristan and Isolde" ... The tale has been retold in many poems and operas ... [9]

Usher ... a famous Edgar Allan Poe tale is titled "The Fall of the House of Usher" ... [1]

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