Soap Opera Names

You should add Spinelli to the list! He’s on General Hospital, he’s a geek, but he has an interesting name.

I mostly love this list, a few of the names annoy me, but I like most of them a lot. Especially Frisco… is it usable, though?

Opal is fast becoming one of my new favorites – I didn’t realize she had a soap opera connection. And I love Gray.

And Echo – love the idea of Echo, but I’d make the same comment Lyndsay made about Frisco – I’m just not sure it is usable.

I suspect the soap writers have a symbiotic relationship with us — us as in Pam and Linda and also us as in the baby-namers of America. I imagine their offices with shelves filled with Cool Names and Beyond Ava & Aiden, from which they lift the wildest names. The adults on soaps have names that in real life are only found on pre-kindergarten age people. But then of course the soap names influence baby names.

Spinelli is the character’s last name, his first name is actually Damien.

I always loved the name Trey from the long canceled Capitol. Hmmm, and my years of watching Santa Barbara during Lane Davies’s tenure left me with a long long lasting good impression of boys named Mason.

What about Kendall? She’s Greenlee’ sister, but I forget which show they’re on.

Kendall and Greenlee are on All my Children—though Greenlee’s “dead” right now. I’m surprised Erica isn’t on here–Erica Kane would be shocked!

Names from Passions:

Endora
Fox
Sheridan
Fancy
Alistair

Great additions!

While not exotic, I was named after Holly on General Hospital. My birthday is in July, so it has always been fun for me to tell people that I was named after a soap opera character!!

I love Greenlee and Farren and plan to use them one day for my little girls. However, I like the spelling Fairen much better. I get a lot of flack for liking Greenlee but have always loved it ever since she came on the show.

I also love Evangeline, Shiloh, Charity, and Laken for girls and Deacon, Gray, and Rafe for boys.

Other soap opera names that I like:
Jax on GH and Kendall on AMC

There is also the recent addition of Cordelia on The Young and the Restless. I thought it was pretty avant-garde.

Cool list, thanks.

I hope that the Cordelia on Y & R doesn’t make the name to popular! That is my number one girls name, and one of the reasons that I like it is that it is uncommon. I hope the Y & R chick doesn’t ruin the name before I have a chance to use it!

Heh apart from the fact that Artemis is a FEMALE deity….

Laura is a very iconic soap name. Stefanie, of course after Stefanie Forrester. Vicki/Victoria. Victor. Elizabeth, Jessica, Natalie, Sarah, Phyllis, Sharon, Brooke, Taylor, Hope, Carly, Bianca, Frankie, Elizabeth.

All names that have been made famous by a character or their portrayer.