Literary Baby Names

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From the birch meadow. Derived from the Old English for birch-wood. Used as a surname more frequently than a first name. Lives at the birch tree meadow. The birch tree meadow. Also see Barclay and Burke. A literary name from Shakespeare's King Richard The Second, where it belongs to earl Berkeley. 'King Richard III' A gentleman attending on Lady Anne.

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Brave as a bear. A literary name from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, where it belongs to an officer. Strong as a bear.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's Love, where it belongs to s Labours Lost' Lord attending on King Ferdinand.

Arthurian Legend English German Literary Teutonic

A knight. Introduced to Britian during the Norman Conquest, a variant of the German Bertram. Bright raven. From an Old German name meaning bright-raven, or glorious raven. All's Well That Ends Well.' Count of Rousillon. Shining raven.

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Handsome face. Also 'from Beauvais'. A literary name from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, where it belongs to george Bevis. Archer.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's King John, where it belongs to lord Bigot.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, where it belongs to a servant to Lucentio.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's King John, where it belongs to james Jurney, servant to Lady Faulconbridge. 'King Richard III' Sir James Tyrrel. 'King Richard III' Sir James Blount.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part 1, where it belongs to sir Walter Blunt. 'King Henry IV, Part 2' One of the King's party.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, where it belongs to roger Bolingbroke, a conjurer. 'King Richard II' Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, later 'King Henry IV".

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A literary name from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, where it belongs to follower of Don John.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream' Bottom, a weaver, acts as Pyramus in the play within the play.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, where it belongs to servant to the Pander.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry V, where it belongs to duke of Bourbon.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's King Richard III, where it belongs to cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's Love, where it belongs to s Labours Lost' Lord attending on the Princess of France.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, where it belongs to venetian Senator, father of Desdemona.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part 2, where it belongs to robert Shallow, a country justice. 'King John' Robert Faulconbridge, and his father, Sir Robert Faulconbridge. 'King Richard III' Sir Robert Brakenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower.

English Irish Literary Teutonic

Derived from a surname and place name based on the Old English for 'hill covered with broom'. Broom is a prolific weed. Also, 'From the beacon hill'. Prince, or brave. Some scholars believe Brendan means 'stinking hair'. Henry VI, 2' Sir John Stanley. 'Henry VI, Part III' Sir William Stanley. As You Like It' A country fellow, in love with Audrey. 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' A boy, son to Page. 'Richard III' Sir William Catesby. 'Richard III' Sir William Brandon. From the beacon hill.

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A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry V, where it belongs to and 'King John' Arthur, Duke of Britaine.

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Stupid. A literary name from Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Coriolanus., where it belongs to junius Brutus, Tribune of the People. 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar' Decius Brutus, a conspirator against Caesar.