Literary A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part 1 and 2, where it belongs to prince John of Lancaster, son to the King.
Lancaster is a boy’s name of Literary origin. A literary name from Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, Part 1 and 2, where it belongs to prince John of Lancaster, son to the King. The name has 9 letters.
Pure. Used since third century A. D. Early Latin forms Katerina and Caterina became Katharine and Catherine. French Cateline and English Catlyn came into wider use during medieval period when variants multiplied. Form of the Greek Catherine meaning pure. Pure. Clear. From the Gaelic form Caitlin. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin 'Katharina', from the Greek Aikaterina'. It was borne by a number of saints, including St Catherine of Alexandria, a 4th century martyr who suffered torture on a spiked wheel. A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry V, where it belongs to daughter to Charles and Isabel, King and Queen of France.
White. Chief. Derived from the English county of Kent. A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part 2, where it belongs to earl of Kent, one of the King's party. 'Tragedy of King Lear' Earl of Kent.
From the long meadow. Englishman. A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry IV, 1, where it belongs to earl of March. 'King Henry VI, III' Edmund, Earl of Rutland and son to Richard Plantagenet. 'Tragedy of King Lear' Edmund, bastard son to Gloucester. 'King Richard The Second' Edmund Langley, Duke of York and uncle to the King.
A hero who saved Rome. A literary name from Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Coriolanus., where it belongs to titus Lartius, a general against the Volscians.
Servant. God-like. Land (from Old German) The short form of the name Lancelot (which incidentally was derived originally from the name Lance!) Therefore, this name is the short form of its own diminutive. A literary name from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, where it belongs to the like to Proteus.
From the place of laurel trees. Of Laurentum. From the place of the laurel leaves. Can also be interpreted as the English version of the Irish name Lorcan: Fierce. A literary name from Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo And Juliet, where it belongs to friar Laurence, Franciscan.
