Thisbe

thiz-bee

Greek mythological name, meaning unknown

Thisbe Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1853 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Thisbe

• 1853 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Thisbe

• Thisbe Nissen author
• Thisbe Vos Dutch,born jazz singer

The name Thisbe in Pop Culture

• Thisbe Caroline "Isby" West Auden's little half,sister in 'Along for the Ride' (2009) by Sarah Dessen
• Aunt Thisbe a black cook and housekeeper in "The Fire and the Hearth," the second of seven stories in 'Go Down, Moses' (1942) by William Faulkner
• A genus of butterfly comprised of 7 species (the most widespread of which is Thisbe irenea)
• According to Pausanias Thisbe was a Boeotian city named after a nymph.
• Tisbe (the Italian version) is the name given to one of the mean/ugly stepsisters in La Cenerentola (Cinderella) an opera by Rossini.
• Thisbe Triskelion character in Cruel Beauty
• "Pyramus and Thisbe" the inspiration for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet " and the play that the Mechanicals in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" put on for Theseus.