Hamlet

Calling this name pretentious is extremely boring. Like what, I have to name my kid John just because this happens to be the name of a famous Shakespeare play? Are you going to tell people named Hamlet or the parents who named their kids that, that they are pretentious? Please.

The Hamlet explications going on in this comment section are absolutely killing me. Who are you trying to impress? This is a name website.
Using the name Hamlet for a child (or even a character in a story) reeks of pretentiousness. I humbly suggest that you do not use it.

Too medieval fashioned and relative to Shakespeare.

I don't think Hamlet is a very good name for a person. It just sounds strange as something to regularly call someone. And if you said, "Hi, my name is Hamlet", you might eventually run into someone who would say, "To be or not to be, that is the question!" (or something weird like that). My mother and I think that Hamlet is a cute name for a hamster, however.

As obsessed with "Hamlet" as I am, I may well have children some day named Hamlet and Ophelia - if not as their first names, then definitely as middle names!

I love the name Hamlet, the play, and the prince. The book Ophelia by Lisa Klein, which is the story of Shakespeare's told from Ophelia's point of view, made me fall in love with this name. I think it is a strong name, and I love its deep Shakespearean roots.

Despite the enduring image of a snivelling, incompetent prince, I think this name is darling and humble.

Sniveling and incompetent? Hamlet was a passionate man determined to avenge his father's foul and most unnatural murder, as in the best it is, but this murder most foul. Hamlet's uncle, King Claudius, stole upon his own brother in his secure hour in which he was wont to sleep in his orchard with juice of accursed hebona in a vial and in the porches of his ears did pour the leperous distilment; thus was he sleeping, by a brother's hand, of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched. Thus I say again, murder most foul, and though I don't agree with what Hamlet did, he was certainly not a "sniveling and incompetent prince" but a masterful man who would avenge his father's death.