Shakespearean names quiz! If you REALLY had to...?

Question

Imagine you are having a daughter and you HAVE to choose a name from a Shakespeare play. Please pick the name you like best from each group of four. Some of the groups have nice names, and some are not so nice, but you still have to pick one from each group.

1. Olivia, Isabella, Mariana, Katharina

2. Miranda, Nerissa, Celia, Bianca

3. Beatrice, Audrey, Jessica, Diana

4. Juliet, Rosalind, Helena, Viola

5. Ophelia, Desdemona, Cordelia, Titania

6. Hermia, Portia, Jacquenetta, Perdita

7. Goneril, Hippolyta, Hecate, Dorcas

8. Imogen, Regan, Cressida, Hero

Answer 1

isabella

nerissa

jessica

helena

titania

portia

hecate

imogen

Answer 2

i like...

olivia, isabella, juliet, regan, and hero

Answer 3

1. Mariana

2. Bianca

3. Diana

4. Juliet.  No, Helena.  No, Juliet.  Why did you put them both on No. 4???

5. Cordelia

6. Portia.  No question about it.

7. Hippolyta

8. Cressida

Answer 4

1. olivia

2. celia

3. audrey

4. juliet

5. cordelia (and shorten it to delia)

6. jacquenetta (etta)

7. hecate (cate)

8. imogen

Answer 5

1. Olivia

2. Miranda (Randi)

3. Diana

4. Juliet (Juli)

5.Desdemona (Desi)

6.Portia

7.Hecate(Cate)

8.Regan

Answer 6

1. Isabella

2. Miranda

3. Audrey

4. Rosalind

5. Cordelia

6. Hermia

7. Hecate

8. Imogen

Answer 7

Olivia

Miranda

Beatrice

Juliet

Ophelia

Hermina

Hecate

Hero

Answer 8

1. Olivia

2. Miranda

3. Audrey

4. Juliet

5. Titania

6. Portia

7. Dorcas

8. Regan

Answer 9

1. Olivia

2. Celia

3. Diana

4. Rosalind

5.Titania

6.Perdita

7. Hecate

8. Cressida

Answer 10

1. Isabella

2. Celia

3. Diana

4. Juliet

5. Cordelia

6. Jacquenetta

7. Hecate

8. Hero

Answer 11

1 Olivia

2 Bianca

3 Audrey

4 Viola

5 Cordelia

6 Portia

7 Dorcas

8 Hero

Answer 12

1: Isabella

2: Celia

3: Audrey

4: Helena

5: Cordelia

6: Portia

7: Hecate

8: Imogen.

Answer 13

1. Isabella (my middle name and one of my favorite names)

2. Miranda (if it had been cecelia I might have chosen that)

2. Jessica (second choice would have been audrey)

4. Juliet (my friend's name)

5. Cordelia (all those names were a little strange)

6. Hermia (I performed that play once, I was narrator 2...or 1, not sure)

7. Goneril (none of those names were very good, Dorcas and Hippolyta, especially since those kids would be made fun of)

8. Cressida (kind of reminds me of Cassandra)

Answer 14

1. Olivia

2. Celia

3. Audrey

4. Rosalind

5. Ophelia

6. Jacquenetta

7. Hecate

8. Imogen

That got a little hard there towards the end.

Answer 15

Isabella

Bianca

Audrey

Juliet

Cordelia

Portia

Hecate

Regan

Answer 16

1) Olivia

2) Bianca

3) Audrey

4) Juliet

5) Cordelia

6) Portia

7) Hippolyta

8) Regan

Another fun one!

Edit: To those who chose Hecate, you do realize that it's pronounced 'hek-a-tee' not 'hek-ate', right? Lol

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Answer 17

1.Olivia

2.Celia

3.Audrey

4.Juliet

5.Titania

6.Hermia

7.Hippolyta

8.Regan

Answer 18

Isabella/Mariana

Celia

Beatrice/Audrey

Juliet

Cordelia "Corie"

Portia

Hecate "Cate"

Regan

Answer 19

1. Mariana

2. Nerissa

3. Audrey

4. Viola

5. Cordelia

6. Portia

7. Hecate

8. Regan

Answer 20

I could go with any name in lines one through five.  Any but Perdita in line six. (It means lost, not a good thing to wish on a child.)  None in line 7.  Imogen in line 8.  

Answer 21

Olivia

Celia

Audrey

Juliet!!!!

Ophelia

Hermia

Hecate

Cressida

Answer 22

1. Isabella

2. Celia

3. Audrey (my favorite girl name- yay)

4. Viola

5. Cordelia    i think this name is so pretty.

6. Portia

7. Hecate - lol what an awful bunch of names to choose from

8. Regan

that was fun. great question. i love doing your surveys. give us another one!

Answer 23

1. Katherina

2. Celia

3. Audrey

4. Helena

5. Cordelia

6. Hermia

7. Goneril

8. Imogen

Answer 24

Olivia

Nerissa

Audrey

Rosalind

Cordelia

Portia

Dorcas

Imogen

Answer 25

Isabella

Celia

Audrey

Helena

Ophelia

Portia

Hecate

Imogen

Answer 26

1. Olivia - common but still pretty.

2. Celia - i prefer Cecilia but this is still nice

3. Audrey - classic and sophisticated

4. Viola - i love Juliet too but Viola just wins.

5. Ophelia - i love this unusual name

6. Portia - ok, best of a bad bunch

7. Hecate - the others had worse nick-name teasing potential.

8. Imogen - i also quite like Hero.

Great question :)