Shakespearean name - Desdemona?

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We already have a 3 year old Hermione, and are expecting baby number 2, which we've just found out is another girl.

We'd like to use a Shakespearean name for dc2. I love Desdemona, and think the nn Desi is very cute.
However, we're not sure if it's a bit out there - Hermione is now also associated with Harry Potter, which normalises it a bit, but Desdemona doesn't really have any other connotations than the Shakespeare one.

Also on our shortlist are Isabella (but think it's a little too popular), Rosalind and Viola.

I like Imogen and Emilia, but don't think I can use either, as dd1's nickname is Mimi, so Imi/Millie would be too similar.

Nothing wrong with Titania if you want your daughter to have a nickname more closely associated with "Swallows and Amazons".

Hmm if I hadn’t heard it before I’d say it was a pretty name, but too much of a tragic association for me. Not Shakespearean but what about Demelza?

Desdemona sounds ugly and clunky to my ear.

Isabella and Emilia are lovely, but very popular.

Viola is beautiful and a bit more unusual.

'Hermione and Viola' sounds nice.

Call her Hero or Beatrice love that play and happy endings all round. Desdemona has too sad an ending for my liking same with Ophelia.

Nobody's mentioned Paulina.

My daughter is named Cordelia, and I only know the Shakespearean reference. Strong willed, misunderstood but morally superior :)

I liked Ophelia but I didn't want the suicide reference

Absulove Rosalind and Cordelia

Ariel? Played by women and men. A beautiful loyal spirit, much like Puck, but more ethereal and self determined.

Am I the only one who immediately thought of the song from Fame?!

Or Regan

Rosalind

Beatrice!

patricia I had 'Desda, Desda, Desdamona!' going through my brain all the way through this thread too!

Hero & Ariel