The Neglected or Forgotten Literary Names

[Mischa]

Hello Berries, I’ve been rereading an old copy of “The Penguin Classic [name_u]Baby[/name_u] Name Book: 2,000 Names From the World’s Great Literature” by [name_f]Grace[/name_f] [name_m]Hamlin[/name_m] and I came across some unusual names I don’t often see mentioned here on Nameberry. The literary characters are good, bad and ugly. [name_f]Do[/name_f] any speak to you? Would you consider some as too “out there” for real life? Are there any names you would like to add?

The [name_m]Arthur[/name_m] Legends (various authors)

Bedivere
Igraine
Lamorac
[name_m]Gawain[/name_m]
[name_f]Guenever[/name_f]
[name_f]Linet[/name_f]/[name_f]Lynette[/name_f]
Liones/Lyonors
[name_m]Geraint[/name_m]
Modred/Mordred

[name_m]Ludovico[/name_m] Ariosto

[name_f]Alcina[/name_f]
Astolfo
Bradamante (f.)
Doralice
[name_f]Fiammetta[/name_f]
Fiordiligi
Giocondo
Logistilla
Mandricardo
Marlisa
[name_m]Rinaldo[/name_m]
Rodomonte (m.)
Zerbino

[name_m]Matthew[/name_m] [name_m]Arnold[/name_m]

[name_f]Philomela[/name_f]
[name_f]Fausta[/name_f]

[name_f]Honor[/name_f]é de [name_m]Balzac[/name_m]

[name_f]Agathe[/name_f]
[name_f]Flore[/name_f]
[name_m]Maxence[/name_m]
[name_m]Anselme[/name_m]
Césarine
[name_m]Fernand[/name_m]
Célestin
[name_f]Hortense[/name_f]
[name_m]Jos[/name_m]épha
[name_f]Mirah[/name_f] (this spelling)
[name_u]Victorin[/name_u]
Wenceslas
[name_m]Armand[/name_m]
[name_f]Nanon[/name_f]
Clémence
Gratien
[name_f]Clotilde[/name_f]
[name_f]Florine[/name_f]
Sixte
[name_f]Anastasie[/name_f]
[name_u]Maxime[/name_u]
[name_f]Victorine[/name_f]
Savinien
[name_f]Ursule[/name_f]
Zélie
[name_f]Aquilina[/name_f]
Euphrasie

[name_m]Pierre[/name_m]-[name_m]Augustine[/name_m] [name_f]Caron[/name_f] de Beaumarchais

Bartholo
Figaro
[name_f]Rosine[/name_f]
Chérubin

[name_f]Aphra[/name_f] Behn

[name_m]Cesario[/name_m]
Mertilla
[name_m]Philander[/name_m]

[name_m]George[/name_m] [name_m]Gordon[/name_m], [name_m]Lord[/name_m] [name_m]Byron[/name_m]

[name_f]Zuleika[/name_f]
[name_f]Medora[/name_f]
Haidée
[name_f]Inez[/name_f]
Lambro
Astarte
Myrrha
[name_f]Zarina[/name_f]

[name_m]Miguel[/name_m] de Cervantes

Aldonza
[name_f]Dulcinea[/name_f]
[name_m]Quixote[/name_m]
[name_m]Sancho[/name_m]
[name_f]Zoraida[/name_f]

[name_m]Geoffrey[/name_m] [name_m]Chaucer[/name_m]

Dorigen
Eglentyne (this spelling)
Emelye (this spelling)
[name_u]January[/name_u]
Palamon
[name_m]Theseus[/name_m]
Alceste
Hippolyta
[name_f]Medea[/name_f]
[name_m]Pyramus[/name_m]
Semiramis
[name_f]Thisbe[/name_f]

[name_m]Anton[/name_m] Chekhov

Agafya
[name_m]Savva[/name_m] (m)
Yermolai
Grigory
Zhenya
Misail
[name_m]Rodion[/name_m]
Stepanida
[name_f]Yelena[/name_f]
[name_m]Yakov[/name_m]
[name_f]Polina[/name_f]
[name_u]Nikita[/name_u]
[name_f]Nadezhda[/name_f]

[name_f]Kate[/name_f] Chopin

[name_f]Calixta[/name_f]
[name_f]Clarisse[/name_f]
Desirée

[name_m]Wilkie[/name_m] [name_u]Collins[/name_u]

[name_m]Decimus[/name_m]
[name_m]Ozias[/name_m]
[name_f]Drusilla[/name_f]
[name_f]Selina[/name_f]
[name_m]Septimus[/name_m]
[name_m]Isidore[/name_m]

[name_m]Benjamin[/name_m] [name_m]Constant[/name_m]

[name_f]Ell[/name_f]énore (this spelling)

[name_u]James[/name_u] Fenimore [name_m]Cooper[/name_m]

Uncas
[name_f]Remarkable[/name_f]

[name_m]Pierre[/name_m] [name_m]Corneille[/name_m]

[name_f]Elvire[/name_f]
[name_f]Ximena[/name_f]

[name_m]Dante[/name_m]

Charon
[name_m]Nimrod[/name_m]
Proserpine
Semiramis
[name_m]Tristram[/name_m]
[name_m]Tobit[/name_m]

[name_m]Charles[/name_m] Dickens

[name_m]Bartholomew[/name_m]
[name_f]Honoria[/name_f]
[name_m]Leicester[/name_m]
[name_m]Herbert[/name_m]
[name_f]Affery[/name_f]
[name_f]Mercy[/name_f]
[name_m]Edwin[/name_m]
[name_f]Ninetta[/name_f]
[name_m]Nicodemus[/name_m]

[name_m]Fyodor[/name_m] Dostoyevsky

[name_f]Aleksey[/name_f]
[name_m]Pavel[/name_m]
[name_m]Arkady[/name_m]
[name_f]Dunya[/name_f]
Porfiry
Aglaya
Gavrila
Parfyon

[name_m]Alexandre[/name_m] [name_m]Dumas[/name_m]

Haydée
[name_m]Jacopo[/name_m]
[name_m]Aramis[/name_m]
Athos
D’Artagnan
[name_m]Porthos[/name_m]

[name_m]George[/name_m] [name_u]Eliot[/name_u]

[name_f]Dinah[/name_f]
[name_m]Amos[/name_m]
[name_m]Tertius[/name_m]
[name_m]Maynard[/name_m]
[name_m]Baldassare[/name_m]
[name_m]Bardo[/name_m]
[name_f]Brigida[/name_f]
[name_f]Romola[/name_f]
[name_f]Eppie[/name_f] ([name_f]Hepzibah[/name_f])

Euripides

[name_m]Heracles[/name_m]
Pentheus
[name_f]Macaria[/name_f]
[name_m]Orestes[/name_m]
[name_f]Hecuba[/name_f]
[name_m]Poseidon[/name_m]
[name_m]Ion[/name_m]
[name_f]Iphigenia[/name_f]
Creon
[name_f]Jocasta[/name_f]
Aethra
[name_f]Andromache[/name_f]

[name_m]Gustave[/name_m] Flaubert

[name_m]Rodolphe[/name_m]
Félicité

[name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_m]Hardy[/name_m]

[name_m]Aeneas[/name_m]
[name_f]Cytherea[/name_f]
[name_f]Eunice[/name_f]
[name_f]Bathsheba[/name_f]
Soberness
[name_f]Temperance[/name_f]
Ethelberta
Picotee
[name_f]Lucetta[/name_f]
Diggory
[name_f]Eustacia[/name_f]
[name_f]Thomasin[/name_f]
[name_m]Cuthbert[/name_m]
[name_f]Modesty[/name_f]
[name_m]Festus[/name_m]
[name_f]Fancy[/name_f]
[name_f]Avice[/name_f]

[name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] [name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m]

[name_f]Zenobia[/name_f]
[name_m]Clifford[/name_m]
[name_f]Hepzibah[/name_f]
[name_m]Donatello[/name_m]
[name_m]Kenyon[/name_m]
[name_f]Hester[/name_f]

Hesiod

Erato
Euterpe
Melpomene
Polyhymnia
Terpsichore
[name_f]Urania[/name_f]

[name_m]Homer[/name_m]

[name_m]Achilles[/name_m]
[name_m]Nestor[/name_m]
[name_m]Odysseus[/name_m]
Eumaeus
[name_m]Hermes[/name_m]
Mentor
Nausicaa
Scylla

[name_m]Victor[/name_m] [name_m]Hugo[/name_m]

Azelma
[name_f]Eponine[/name_f]
[name_f]Fantine[/name_f]
[name_m]Phoebus[/name_m]
Gudule

[name_f]Sarah[/name_f] Orme Jewett

Almiry (f.)

[name_m]Nikolai[/name_m] Leskov

Sonetka
Zinovy

[name_m]Henry[/name_m] Wadsworth [name_m]Longfellow[/name_m]

[name_m]Felicien[/name_m]
Nokomis
[name_f]Wenonah[/name_f]

[name_m]Herman[/name_m] [name_m]Melville[/name_m]

[name_m]Amasa[/name_m]
[name_m]Ahab[/name_m]
[name_m]Ismael[/name_m]
Wellingborough
Fayaway
Tommo

[name_m]George[/name_m] [name_u]Meredith[/name_u]

[name_f]Laetitia[/name_f]
[name_u]Willoughby[/name_u]

[name_f]Moli[/name_f]ère

Géronte
Léandre
[name_f]Lucinde[/name_f]
[name_f]Martine[/name_f]
Sganarelle
[name_m]Thibaut[/name_m]
[name_u]Val[/name_u]ère
[name_f]Elvira[/name_f]
Angélique
Béline
Louison
[name_f]Lisette[/name_f]
Célimène
Harpagon
Tartuffe
Orgon
Scapin
[name_m]Silvester[/name_m]
Zerbinetta
[name_m]Jourdain[/name_m]

[name_m]Ovid[/name_m]

[name_m]Actaeon[/name_m]
[name_f]Alcyone[/name_f]
[name_f]Andromeda[/name_f]
[name_f]Aphrodite[/name_f]
Arachne
[name_f]Arethusa[/name_f]
[name_f]Atalanta[/name_f]
[name_m]Cadmus[/name_m]
[name_f]Ceres[/name_f]
[name_f]Clytie[/name_f]
[name_f]Cyane[/name_f]
[name_f]Danae[/name_f]
Deianira
[name_m]Dionysus[/name_m]
Egeria
Europa
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]
Hades
[name_m]Jove[/name_m]/[name_m]Jupiter[/name_m]
Leto
[name_f]Minerva[/name_f]
[name_f]Niobe[/name_f]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m]
[name_f]Pomona[/name_f]
Pyrrha
Semele
[name_f]Thetis[/name_f]
[name_m]Vulcan[/name_m]

[name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_f]Love[/name_f] Peacock (that’s some name)

[name_f]Clarinda[/name_f]
[name_f]Lemma[/name_f]
Marionetta
Scythrop

[name_m]Edgar[/name_m] [name_m]Allan[/name_m] [name_u]Poe[/name_u]

[name_f]Eulalie[/name_f]
[name_f]Ligeia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lenore[/name_f]
Ulalume

[name_f]Olive[/name_f] Schreiner

Lyndall

[name_m]William[/name_m] [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m]

[name_u]Corin[/name_u]
[name_m]Jaques[/name_m]
[name_m]Silvius[/name_m]
Laertes
Goneril
[name_f]Jacquenetta[/name_f]
Banquo
Bassanio
[name_f]Titania[/name_f]
Leonato
[name_f]Desdemona[/name_f]
Mercutio
[name_m]Tybalt[/name_m]
Lucentio
Petruchio
[name_m]Caliban[/name_m]
[name_m]Prospero[/name_m]
[name_f]Tamora[/name_f]
[name_f]Cressida[/name_f]
Malvolio
[name_m]Orsino[/name_m]
Florizel (m.)
[name_m]Leontes[/name_m]
[name_f]Perdita[/name_f]

[name_m]Edmund[/name_m] [name_u]Spenser[/name_u]

Acrasia
[name_f]Amoret[/name_f]
Belphoebe
Britomart (f.)
[name_f]Charissa[/name_f]
[name_f]Claribell[/name_f]
Coelia
Duessa
[name_f]Elissa[/name_f]
Florimell (f.)
Gloriana
Mercilla
Speranza
Talus
Tanaquill (this spelling)

[name_m]William[/name_m] [name_m]Thackeray[/name_m]

Bute
Glorvina
Rawdon

[name_m]Leo[/name_m] Tolstoy

[name_m]Arseny[/name_m]
[name_m]Anatoly[/name_m]
Platon
[name_m]Vasili[/name_m]

[name_m]Anthony[/name_m] Trollope

[name_f]Ellinor[/name_f] (this spelling)
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
[name_f]Patience[/name_f]
Justinia
Wallachia
[name_m]Theophilus[/name_m]
Aspasia
Glencora (I like this one)
Alured
[name_f]Florinda[/name_f]
Plantagenet

[name_m]Ivan[/name_m] Turgenev

Agafokleya
Eudoxie
[name_f]Zinaida[/name_f]
[name_f]Varvara[/name_f]
[name_f]Zoya[/name_f]

[name_m]Mark[/name_m] [name_m]Twain[/name_m]

Alisande
[name_m]Clarence[/name_m]
Sagramor
[name_f]Roxana[/name_f]

[name_m]Virgil[/name_m]

Alecto
[name_f]Dido[/name_f]
Megaera
Tisiphone

Voltaire

[name_u]Candide[/name_u]
Cunégonde
Pangloss (too strange?)

[name_f]Edith[/name_f] [name_m]Wharton[/name_m]

[name_m]Newland[/name_m]
[name_f]Undine[/name_f]
[name_f]Zeena[/name_f] ([name_f]Zenobia[/name_f])

[name_m]Emile[/name_m] [name_u]Zola[/name_u]

[name_f]Nana[/name_f]
[name_u]Gervaise[/name_u]
[name_m]Hilarion[/name_m]
[name_f]Hyacinthe[/name_f]
[name_f]Olympe[/name_f]
Palmyre (I love this one - “pahl-MEER”)
[name_m]Zacharie[/name_m]

[system]

I really like this post, thanks for posting mischa!

I certainly find these names likable/usable:
Bedivere
Lamorac
Liones
Doralice (I am assuming this is pronounced dor-uh-lee-ch-eh.)
[name_f]Fiammetta[/name_f]
[name_f]Agathe[/name_f]
[name_m]Maxence[/name_m]
[name_f]Josepha[/name_f]
[name_f]Mirah[/name_f]
[name_f]Clemence[/name_f]
[name_f]Clotilde[/name_f]
[name_f]Zuleika[/name_f]
[name_f]Medora[/name_f]
[name_f]Haidee[/name_f]
[name_f]Inez[/name_f]
[name_f]Dulcinea[/name_f]
[name_u]January[/name_u]
Hippolyta
[name_f]Medea[/name_f]
[name_f]Thisbe[/name_f]
[name_f]Calixta[/name_f]
[name_m]Ozias[/name_m]
[name_f]Drusilla[/name_f]
[name_m]Septimus[/name_m]
[name_m]Isidore[/name_m]
Proserpine
[name_f]Mercy[/name_f]
[name_m]Edwin[/name_m]
[name_f]Aleksey[/name_f]
[name_m]Pavel[/name_m]
D’Artagnan
[name_m]Amos[/name_m]
[name_f]Iphigenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Jocasta[/name_f]
[name_f]Andromache[/name_f]
[name_f]Cytherea[/name_f]
[name_f]Temperance[/name_f]
[name_f]Thomasin[/name_f]
[name_f]Zenobia[/name_f]
[name_f]Hester[/name_f]
Melpomene
Polyhymnia
[name_f]Elvira[/name_f]
[name_m]Silvester[/name_m]
[name_f]Alcyone[/name_f]
[name_f]Andromeda[/name_f]
[name_f]Aphrodite[/name_f]
[name_m]Dionysus[/name_m]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]
[name_m]Jove[/name_m]
[name_f]Minerva[/name_f]
[name_f]Pomona[/name_f]
[name_f]Clarinda[/name_f]
[name_f]Eulalie[/name_f]
[name_f]Titania[/name_f]
[name_m]Tybalt[/name_m]
[name_f]Tamora[/name_f]
[name_f]Cressida[/name_f]
[name_f]Perdita[/name_f]
Belphoebe
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
[name_f]Patience[/name_f]
Glencora
[name_f]Zoya[/name_f]
Alecto

[sadiejosephine]

Names that I would consider as too out there: Bradamante; Astolfo; Fiordiligi; Logistilla(the beginning sounds like logic); Mandricardo; Rodomonte; [name_m]Anselme[/name_m]; Wenceslas; Savinien; [name_f]Zelie[/name_f]; Euphrasie; [name_f]Zuleika[/name_f]; Dorigen; Palamon(although possibilities for nickname [name_m]Pal[/name_m] & Mon make this interesting :D); Hippolyta(too closely assimilated to hippos); [name_m]Pyramus[/name_m]; Semiramis; Agafya; Yermolai; Zhenya; Misail; Stepanida; [name_f]Nadezhda[/name_f]; Uncas; [name_m]Nimrod[/name_m](can I ask, is this as obvious to everyone else as it is to me?); [name_f]Aleksey[/name_f]; Porfiry; Aglaya; Gavrila; Parfyon; Haydee; [name_m]Jacopo[/name_m]; [name_f]Hecuba[/name_f]; Iphegenia; [name_f]Andromache[/name_f]; [name_m]Aeneas[/name_m]; [name_f]Cytherea[/name_f]; [name_f]Eunice[/name_f](does this remind anyone else of eunuch?); Ethelberta; Soberness; Picotee; [name_f]Lucetta[/name_f]; [name_m]Festus[/name_m](like fester); [name_f]Zenobia[/name_f](is a country); [name_f]Hepzibah[/name_f]; Erato; Euterpe; Melpomene; Polyhymnia; Terpsichore; [name_f]Urania[/name_f](too much like urine); Eumaeus(too many vowels); Nausicaa; Scylla; Azelma; [name_f]Eponine[/name_f]; Gudule; Almiry; Sonetka; Zinovy; Nokomis; [name_f]Wenonah[/name_f]; [name_m]Amasa[/name_m]; Wellingborough; Leititia; Sganarelle; [name_m]Thibaut[/name_m]; Celimene; Harpagon; Tartuffe; Zerbinetta; [name_m]Actaeon[/name_m]; [name_f]Alcyone[/name_f]; [name_f]Aphrodite[/name_f]; Arachne; [name_f]Arethusa[/name_f]; Deianira; Egeria; Europa; [name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]; [name_f]Niobe[/name_f]; Pyrrha; Semele; [name_m]Vulcan[/name_m](too [name_f]Star[/name_f]-Trekky); Ulalume; [name_f]Eulalie[/name_f]; Laertes; Goneril; Mercutio; Petruchio; [name_m]Prospero[/name_m]; Malvolio; FLorizel; [name_f]Perdita[/name_f](very Disney cartoonish); Acrasia; [name_f]Amoret[/name_f]; Britomart; Coelia; Speranza; Bute; Glorvina; Rawdon; [name_m]Arseny[/name_m]; Platon; Wallachia; Glencora; Alured; Plantagenet; Agafokleya; Eudoxie; [name_f]Zinaida[/name_f]; Alisande; Sagramor; Alecto; Megaera; Tisiphone; Cunegonde; Pangloss; [name_f]Undine[/name_f]; [name_u]Gervaise[/name_u].

Names that speak to me: Bedivere(although nicknames might be hard to come up for this one); [name_m]Gawain[/name_m]; [name_f]Lynette[/name_f]; Mordred; Fiametta(because of the nickname [name_f]Etta[/name_f]); [name_f]Philomela[/name_f]; [name_m]Maxence[/name_m]; Cesarine; [name_f]Celestin[/name_f]; [name_f]Hortense[/name_f]; [name_u]Victorin[/name_u]; [name_f]Clemence[/name_f]; [name_f]Anastasie[/name_f]; [name_u]Maxime[/name_u]; [name_f]Victorine[/name_f]; Savinien; [name_f]Medora[/name_f]; [name_f]Dulcinea[/name_f]; [name_u]January[/name_u]; [name_u]Nikita[/name_u]; [name_m]Decimus[/name_m]; [name_f]Selina[/name_f]; [name_m]Isadore[/name_m]; [name_f]Ellenore[/name_f](this spelling :D); [name_f]Elvire[/name_f]; [name_f]Honoria[/name_f]; [name_f]Mercy[/name_f]; [name_f]Ninetta[/name_f]; [name_m]Nicodemus[/name_m](I love the nickname [name_u]Nico[/name_u]); D’Artagnan(I [name_f]LOVE[/name_f] this name! Watched the Musketeer movie starring [name_m]Justin[/name_m] Chambers, and fell in love with both the name and the character! I would use it, if it were not so out there); Felicite(that’s pronounced like [name_f]Felicity[/name_f]?); [name_f]Temperance[/name_f]; Diggory; [name_f]Modesty[/name_f]; [name_f]Avice[/name_f]; [name_m]Clifford[/name_m](because of nicknames [name_m]Cliff[/name_m] & [name_m]Ford[/name_m]); [name_m]Donatello[/name_m]([name_m]Don[/name_m] and Ato); Oddyseus; [name_f]Valere[/name_f]; [name_f]Elvira[/name_f]; [name_f]Angelique[/name_f](love this one); [name_f]Lisette[/name_f]; [name_m]Silvester[/name_m](which I love); [name_m]Jourdain[/name_m]; [name_m]Jacques[/name_m]; [name_f]Titania[/name_f]; [name_f]Desdemona[/name_f]; I kind of like Belpheobe, because it has potential to use nicknames for both [name_u]Bell[/name_u]/[name_f]Bella[/name_f] & [name_f]Pheobe[/name_f]; [name_f]Claribell[/name_f]; [name_f]Elissa[/name_f]; [name_f]Patience[/name_f]; [name_f]Varvara[/name_f]; [name_m]Clarence[/name_m]; [name_f]Roxana[/name_f]; [name_m]Virgil/name_m; Megaera; [name_m]Zacharie[/name_m].

[geeknamezyo]

Wow, sooooooo many of these are on my list. And it’s nice to see the [name_f]Moli[/name_f]ère names finally getting some attention; I work at a classical theatre summer camp and have been keeping a list of weird [name_f]Moli[/name_f]ère names for years!

On my list (favorites bolded):
[name_f]Amoret[/name_f]
[name_f]Andromeda[/name_f]
[name_f]Atalanta[/name_f]
Belphoebe
[name_f]Danae[/name_f]
[name_f]Fiammetta[/name_f]
[name_m]Gawain[/name_m]
[name_f]Iphigenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lenore[/name_f]
[name_f]Minerva[/name_f]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m]
[name_f]Undine[/name_f] (I prefer the [name_f]Ondine[/name_f] spelling)
[name_f]Zenobia[/name_f]

I like:
Astarte
Aethra
[name_f]Andromache[/name_f]
[name_m]Aeneas[/name_m]
[name_f]Aphrodite[/name_f]
Azelma
[name_m]Bartholomew[/name_m]
[name_f]Cressida[/name_f]
Deianira
[name_f]Desdemona[/name_f]
[name_f]Eponine[/name_f]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
[name_m]Isidore[/name_m]
[name_m]Jupiter[/name_m]
Laertes
Megaera
Mercutio
Nausicaa
[name_m]Ozias[/name_m]
[name_m]Orsino[/name_m]
[name_f]Perdita[/name_f]
[name_m]Prospero[/name_m]
Sonetka
Speranza
[name_m]Tybalt[/name_m]
Tanaquill
Zélie
[name_f]Zinaida[/name_f]
[name_f]Zoya[/name_f]
[name_f]Zeena[/name_f]
Zerbinetta
[name_f]Zuleika[/name_f]

I wouldn’t use (because of the namesake unless stated otherwise):
Creon - Is horrible to [name_f]Antigone[/name_f]
[name_f]Jocasta[/name_f] - Uh, incest.
Scylla - Many-headed monster (but I actually really like the name.)
Géronte, Sganarelle, [name_f]Elvira[/name_f], Harpagon, Tartuffe, Orgon and [name_m]Jourdain[/name_m] - are all idiots and/or villains and/or misers
[name_f]Niobe[/name_f] - Famous for crying a lot
[name_f]Ligeia[/name_f] - Creep factor wouldn’t usually stop me from using a name, but [name_f]Ligeia[/name_f] creeps me out even more than [name_u]Poe[/name_u]'s other stuff
Goneril - I played [name_u]Regan[/name_u], so I’m kind of mad at her for poisoning me.
[name_f]Jacquenetta[/name_f] - Is a skank but I actually kind of love her and her name anyway and hey, that’s just archaic slut-shaming, right?
[name_f]Tamora[/name_f] - I actually love the character, but I can’t quite see naming a child after someone who encourages her sons to commit rape and murder
Malvolio - Ha.
Alecto - Is now also the name of a Death Eater in the [name_m]Harry[/name_m] [name_m]Potter[/name_m] series
Aspasia and Acrasia - are cool but sound too close to aphasia for me.

I would add to the list:
[name_f]Aphra[/name_f] Behn - Imoinda
[name_f]Moli[/name_f]ère - Lélie (m), Célie (f), Dorimène, and in the version of Scapin our kids performed, Zerbinetta was Zerbinette
Arthurian legends - Pellinore, Elyan, and Leodegrance, off the top of my head

[ottilie]

Almost all of these have been on my list at some point. [name_f]Love[/name_f] most of them, these are my favourites (I’ve starred the ones I’d use):

Bedivere
Igraine
Lamorac
[name_m]Gawain[/name_m]*
[name_f]Guenever[/name_f]* (although as [name_f]Guinevere[/name_f] or [name_f]Guenevere[/name_f])
Liones/Lyonors* (as Lyonesse which I vastly prefer)
Modred/Mordred
Bradamante*
[name_f]Fiammetta[/name_f]*
Marlisa
Rodomonte
[name_f]Philomela[/name_f]
[name_f]Hortense[/name_f]
Wenceslas*
[name_m]Armand[/name_m]
Clémence*
[name_f]Victorine[/name_f]
Figaro
[name_f]Zuleika[/name_f]
[name_f]Medora[/name_f]
[name_f]Inez[/name_f]
Astarte
Myrrha
[name_f]Dulcinea[/name_f]
[name_f]Zoraida[/name_f]*
Hippolyta
[name_f]Medea[/name_f]
[name_m]Pyramus[/name_m]
Semiramis
[name_m]Rodion[/name_m]
[name_f]Polina[/name_f]*
[name_u]Nikita[/name_u]
[name_m]Ozias[/name_m]
[name_f]Drusilla[/name_f]
[name_m]Isidore[/name_m]*
[name_f]Ximena[/name_f]
Charon
[name_m]Nimrod[/name_m] (I prefer Nemroth)
Proserpine* (Proserpina)
[name_m]Tristram[/name_m]
[name_m]Heracles[/name_m]
[name_f]Iphigenia[/name_f]*
[name_f]Andromache[/name_f]
[name_m]Aeneas[/name_m]*
[name_f]Cytherea[/name_f]
[name_f]Bathsheba[/name_f]
[name_f]Thomasin[/name_f]
[name_f]Zenobia[/name_f]*
Erato*
Melpomene
Polyhymnia*
Terpsichore*
[name_f]Urania[/name_f]* ([name_f]Ourania[/name_f])
[name_m]Nestor[/name_m]
[name_m]Odysseus[/name_m]
[name_m]Hermes[/name_m]*
Nausicaa*
[name_f]Eponine[/name_f]*
[name_f]Laetitia[/name_f]*
[name_f]Elvira[/name_f]
Angélique
[name_m]Silvester[/name_m]
Zerbinetta
[name_f]Alcyone[/name_f]*
[name_f]Andromeda[/name_f]*
[name_f]Aphrodite[/name_f]*** (already used ;))
[name_f]Atalanta[/name_f]*
[name_f]Ceres[/name_f] - I think this is lovely, but we spend a lot of time in [name_f]Italy[/name_f] and this is a brand of beer.
[name_f]Danae[/name_f]
Deianira
[name_m]Dionysus[/name_m]
[name_f]Eurydice[/name_f]*
[name_f]Minerva[/name_f]
[name_m]Orpheus[/name_m]*
[name_f]Pomona[/name_f]
[name_f]Eulalie[/name_f]
[name_m]Silvius[/name_m]
Laertes
Bassanio
[name_f]Titania[/name_f]
[name_f]Desdemona[/name_f]*
Mercutio*
[name_m]Tybalt[/name_m]*
Lucentio
[name_m]Prospero[/name_m]*
[name_f]Tamora[/name_f]
[name_f]Cressida[/name_f]
[name_m]Orsino[/name_m]*
Florizel*
[name_m]Leontes[/name_m]*
[name_f]Perdita[/name_f]
Acrasia
[name_f]Amoret[/name_f]*
Belphoebe*
Florimell*
Tanaquill*
[name_f]Zinaida[/name_f]
[name_f]Roxana[/name_f]
Megaera*
[name_f]Undine[/name_f]* (as [name_f]Ondine[/name_f])

I would add…

From Arthurian Legends (all male unless specified):
Aglovale
Agravaine
Aillean (f)
Alaida (f)
[name_f]Alcina[/name_f] (f)
Alemandine (f)
Aliduke
Alymere
Anglitoran (f)
Argante (f)
Arianrod (f)
Aristause
Arrok
Astamor
Bagdemagus
Barant
[name_m]Baudwin[/name_m]
Belide (f)
Bellangere
Belleus
Blamore
Blasine (f)
Bleoberis
Bohart
Bors
Brandiles
Brangwen (f)
Bruine
Caelia (f)
Carados
Cardok
Chaleins
Clarissant(f)
Clarrus
Clegis
Cloddrus
Colgrevance
Crosselm
Curselaine
Dagonet
Daronwy (f)
Darras
Degore
Degrane
Degrevaunt
Dinadan
Dinas
Dodinas
Driant
Durnore
[name_f]Elizabel[/name_f] (f)
Epinogris
Erminide
Esclarimonde (f)
Escorducarla (f)
Esmeree/Esmeray (f)
Felelollie (f)
[name_f]Florence[/name_f]
[name_f]Florie[/name_f] (f)
Florisdelfa (f)
Gahalantine
Gaheris
Galagars
Galahad
Galihodin
Galihud
Galleron
Gautere
Gililen (f)
Gillemere
Gingalin
Glitonea (f)
Griflet
Gromore
Guyart
Hebes
Hectimere
[name_f]Helaine[/name_f]
Helie (f)
Hervise
Iblis (f)
Ironside
Ladinas
Lambaile
Lambegus
Lamiel
Laudine (f)
Lavaine
Lile (f)
Logistilla (f)
[name_f]Lore[/name_f] (f)
[name_m]Lovel[/name_m]
Mador
Marhaus
Marisque (f)
Marrok
Meliagaunce
Melion
Meliot
Melleaus
[name_f]Melora[/name_f] (f)
Menaduke
[name_f]Morganetta[/name_f] (f)
Morganore
Morgawse/Morgause (f)
Nerovens
Nimue/Niniane/Nyneve (f)
[name_f]Olwen[/name_f] (f)
Orainglais (f)
Ozanna
Palomedes
Patrise
Pelleas
Perimones
Persaunt
Pertilope
Petipase
Pinel
Plenorius
Priamus
Pulzella (f)
Ragnell (f)
[name_u]Reynold[/name_u]
Sadok
Safere
Sagramore
Saraide (f)
Sebile (f)
Seli (f)
Selises
Sentraile
Servause
Soredamor (f)
Suppinabilis
[name_u]Taliesin[/name_u]
Tamise (f)
Tancree (f)
[name_u]Tarian[/name_u] (f)
[name_u]Tegan[/name_u] (f)
Trephina (f)
Tryamore (f)
Tyronoe (f)
Ulbause
Uriens
Urre
Uwaine
Verseria (f)
Villiars
[name_f]Vivianne[/name_f] (f)
Ydian (f)
Ygraine (f)
Ysaive (f)

From [name_m]Edmund[/name_m] [name_u]Spenser[/name_u]'s The Faerie Queene:
Arthegall/Artegal (m)
Calidore (m)
Cambina (f)
Canacee (f)
Chrysogonee (f)
Duessa (f)
Hellenore (f)
Malbecco (m)
Malecasta (f)
[name_f]Marinell[/name_f] (m)
Pastorella (f)
Redcrosse (m)
Satyrane (m)
Scudamour (m)
Timias (m)
Triamond (m)

[Mischa]

I’m happy that some names are deemed “usable”.

@fiammetta - you’re welcome! I’m glad you like so many literary names.

@sadiejosephine - Félicité is the [name_m]French[/name_m] version of [name_f]Felicity[/name_f] and it’s pronounced “fay-[name_u]LEE[/name_u]-see-tay” due to the accents.

@geeknamezyo - I debated whether to put in the names of the “baddies” but decided to anyway. I enjoyed reading your take on their stories. Thank you for the other names. Dorimène is pretty.

@ottilie - since the author only had 2,000 names in the book, it looks like she left out a lot of Arthurian and [name_u]Spenser[/name_u] gems. Thank you for this list. I’m going to add it to mine.

[cklarios]

We’re heavily considering the name [name_m]Bardo[/name_m] for a boy. Good list!