Looking for some inspiration from Shakespeare for baby names for girls? Shakespeare used 75 women’s names in his 37 plays, naming queens, jesters, heroines and warriors… so something for every personality type! Read the full list of Shakespeare baby names for girls below:
- Adrian – (Coriolanus, The Tempest)
- Adriana – (The Comedy of Errors)
- Albany – (King Lear)
- Alexas – (Antony and Cleopatra)
- Alice – (Henry V)
- Aliena – (As You Like It)
- Anne – (Henry VIII, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III)
- Ariel – (The Tempest)
- Audrey – (As You Like It)
- Beatrice – (Much Ado About Nothing)
- Bianca – (The Taming of the Shrew, Othello)
- Calpurnia – (Julius Caesar)
- Cassandra – (Troilus and Cressida)
- Celia – (As You Like It)
- Ceres – (The Tempest)
- Cleopatra – (Antony and Cleopatra)
- Cordelia – (King Lear)
- Cressida – (Troilus and Cressida)
- Cymbeline – (Cymbeline)
- Desdemona – (Othello)
- Diana – (All’s Well That Ends Well)
- Dion – (The Winter’s Tale)
- Dionyza – (Pericles)
- Dolabella – (Antony and Cleopatra)
- Dorcas – (The Winter’s Tale)
- Eleanor – (King John)
- Elizabeth – (Henry VIII, 3 Henry VI/Richard III)
- Emilia – (The Comedy of Errors, The Winter’s Tale, Othello, The Two Noble Kinsmen)
- Gertrude – (Hamlet)
- Helen – (Troilus and Cressida, All’s Well That Ends Well)
- Helena – (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
- Hermia – (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
- Hermione – (The Winter’s Tale)
- Hero – (Much Ado About Nothing)
- Imogen – (Cymbeline)
- Iris – (The Tempest)
- Isabel – (Richard II, Henry V)
- Isabella – (Measure for Measure)
- Isidore – (Timon of Athens)
- Jessica – (The Merchant of Venice)
- Julia – (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
- Juliet – (Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure)
- Juno – (The Tempest)
- Jupiter – (Cymbeline)
- Katharine – (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry V)
- Katherina – (The Taming of the Shrew)
- Katherine – (Henry VIII)
- Lavinia – (Titus Andronicus)
- Leonine – (Pericles)
- Luce – (The Comedy of Errors)
- Luciana – (The Comedy of Errors)
- Margaret – ( 1/2/3 Henry VI/Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing)
- Margery – (2 Henry VI)
- Maria – (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night)
- Mariana – (All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure)
- Marina – (Pericles)
- Miranda – (The Tempest)
- Morgan – (Cymbeline)
- Octavia – (Antony and Cleopatra)
- Olivia – (Twelfth Night)
- Ophelia – (Hamlet)
- Paulina – (The Winter’s Tale)
- Phebe – (As You Like It)
- Portia – (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar)
- Regan – (King Lear)
- Robin – (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor)
- Rosalind – (As You Like It)
- Rosaline – (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
- Silvia – (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
- Tamora – (Titus Andronicus)
- Titania – (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
- Ursula – (Much Ado About Nothing)
- Valentine – (Titus Andronicus, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night)
- Valeria – (Coriolanus)
- Viola – (Twelfth Night)
Cordelia as played by Florence Pugh
Having a boy? Check out our list of Shakespeare baby names for boys.