Girl Names from Poems?

Girl Names
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I am looking for girl names that are either titles of poems or appear in poems! NOT non-proper names like [name]Sonnet[/name], but ones like;

“[name]Evangeline[/name]” by [name]Henry[/name] Wordsworth [name]Longfellow[/name]
“The Rape of the [name]Lock[/name]” ([name]Arabella[/name]) by [name]Alexander[/name] Pope
“[name]Eulalie[/name]” by [name]Edgar[/name] [name]Allen[/name] [name]Poe[/name] (plus all of his other lady poems like “[name]Lenore[/name]”)
“[name]Maud[/name]” by [name]Alfred[/name] [name]Lloyd[/name] [name]Tennyson[/name]

I have already perused [name]Shakespeare[/name] and the popular Greek epic poems!

:slight_smile:

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Ooh, intersting! Here are some…

[name]Annabelle[/name] [name]Lee[/name] by [name]Edgar[/name] [name]Allen[/name] [name]Poe[/name] (not sure if you already had that one, but it’s till worth suggesting.)
[name]Clarinda[/name] by [name]Robert[/name] [name]Burns[/name]
[name]Zuleika[/name] by [name]Lord[/name] [name]Tennyson[/name]

A few more (from poems unkown- mainly early Greek and romantic poems)
[name]Althea[/name]
[name]Amarantha[/name]
[name]Aminta[/name]
[name]Anthea[/name]
[name]Audria[/name]
[name]Celia[/name]
[name]Clorinda[/name]
[name]Corinna[/name]
[name]Chloe[/name]
[name]Chloris[/name]
[name]Delia[/name]
[name]Dorina[/name]
[name]Fawnia[/name]
[name]Flora[/name]
[name]Gratiana[/name]
[name]Isabell[/name]
[name]Julia[/name]
[name]Laura[/name]
[name]Lucasta[/name]
Perilla
[name]Philomena[/name]
[name]Phillida[/name]
[name]Phillis[/name]
[name]Phoebe[/name]
[name]Rosalind[/name]
[name]Rosaline[/name]
[name]Sabrina[/name]
Samela
[name]Silvia[/name]
[name]Vevina[/name]

Nameberry actually did a blog about names from poetry- here’s the link: Poetic Baby Names: Lyrical choices for National Poetry Month | Nameberry

[name]Hope[/name] that helps!

  • [name]Athena[/name]
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you might find this interesting:

Here are some more names from poems:

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My favorite is [name]Margaret[/name], from [name]Gerard[/name] [name]Manley[/name] Hopkins’s “[name]Spring[/name] and Fall”: Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins - Poems | Academy of American Poets.

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Oh these are lovely and pity I didn’t check the blog before posting! [name]Calliope[/name] and [name]Althea[/name] especially are gorgeous…now I’m wondering if any berries have personal favorites?

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“grave [name]Alice[/name], and laughing [name]Allegra[/name], and [name]Edith[/name] with golden hair.” from the Children’s Hour.

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[name]Annabel[/name] [name]Lee[/name] is my favourite. (It’s not [name]Annabelle[/name], btw, in the [name]Edgar[/name] [name]Allen[/name] [name]Poe[/name] poem). It’s probably a lot easier to use than Ulalume, which is mostly handy only for “names for every letter” games.

[name]Lorelei[/name] - [name]Heinrich[/name] [name]Heine[/name]. The tragic mermaid/siren thing. I like it a lot.

Belphoebe is pretty cool too, just unwieldy. It’s from [name]Spenser[/name]’s The Faerie [name]Queen[/name]. So is Florimel. Florimel seems pretty random but with [name]Florence[/name] undergoing revival it seems like Florimel could work.

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Also from [name]Spenser[/name]'s The Faerie [name]Queen[/name]:

[name]Amoret[/name]
Gloriana
[name]Una[/name]

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My name, [name]Ariel[/name], is after the poem by [name]Sylvia[/name] Plath.