Thisbe
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About Thisbe
Thisbe, the name of a beautiful but tragic lover in mythology, is lively and cute -- in a slightly thistly, prickly way. Ovid retold the story of Thisbe and Pyramus, young lovers in ancient Babylon kept apart by family rivalry, which was the inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. A modern bearer of the name is writer Thisbe Nissen.
In Sarah Dessen's novel Along for the Ride, the baby daughter is named Thisby, nn Isby.
Pronounced THIS-bee.
As of October 2026, Thisbe ranked #17445 in US births in 2021 SSA, peaked at #14471 in 2013.
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Famous Thisbes
- Thisbe Nissen
author
- Thisbe Vos
Dutch,born jazz singer
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.