When William Shakespeare created these words for Juliet in his famous play about star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, he also inspired some amazing names that today's parents can choose if they feel sick of the current crop of popular names.
William Shakespeare not only created wonderful quotes, characters and plots, but invented and popularised many names. Boy names seem to be a little easier to come by in Shakespeare's plays, probably because Shakespeare's characters were more likely to be male. Without feminism to lead the charge, all actors were male, even if they played female parts. Here are some baby names for boys inspired by Shakespeare.
Bertram, Lavache, Parolles (All's Well that Ends Well)
Adam, Amiens, Corin, Oliver (As You Like It)
Angelo, Dromio, Solinus (Comedy of Errors)
Claudius, Francisco, Hamlet, Horatio, Voltimand (Hamlet)
Curan, Edgar, Edmund, Lear, Oswald (King Lear)
Angus, Banquo, Duncan, Lennox, Malcolm, Ross, seyton (Macbeth)
Fenton, Ford, Nym, Pistol, Robin (Merry Wives of Windsor)
Demetrius, Lysander, Oberon, Puck, Quince (Midsummer Night's Dream)
Cassio, Iago, Montano (Othello)
Cerimon, Cleon (Pericles)
Mercutio, Paris, Sampson, Tybalt (Romeo)
Alonso, Ariel, Caliban, Prospero (The Tempest)
Curio, Fabian, Orsino, Sebastian (Twelfth Night)
Dion, Leontes (Winter's Tale)
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