| 100% | SOLANIO | 7 | Friend, with Salarino, of Antonio in Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 67% | ANTONIO | 7 | Title character in Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 64% | ANTONIO | 7 | Title character in William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 64% | BASSANIO | 8 | Suitor to Portia in William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 63% | TUBAL | 5 | Wealthy Jewish friend of Shylock in William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 57% | PORTIA | 6 | Heroine of William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 56% | NERISSA | 7 | Waiting-woman of Portia in William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 56% | SALANIO | 7 | Friend of Antonio in "The Merchant of Venice" |
| 55% | NERISSA | 7 | Woman-in-waiting of Portia in William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| 50% | SHYLOCK | 7 | The antagonist in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice |
| 49% | HORATIO | 7 | University friend of Hamlet in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
| 49% | PORTIA | 6 | Moon of Uranus named for a rich heiress in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" |
| 47% | PANTHINO | 8 | Servant to Antonio in William Shakespeare play The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| 47% | BENVOLIO | 8 | Cousin and friend of Romeo in the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet |
| 46% | SHYLOCK | 7 | Moneylender in The Merchant of Venice |
| 45% | PORTIA | 6 | She marries Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice |
| 44% | OTHELLO | 7 | Shakespeare's play about the Moor of Venice |
| 43% | PETRUCHIO | 9 | Suitor to Kate in William Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew |
| 43% | SHYLOCK | 7 | Name of the moneylender in Merchant of Venice |
| 43% | MUCHADOABOUT | 12 | "___ Nothing," a 1993 film based on a Shakespeare play, in which Keanu Reeves starred with the likes of Denzel Washington: 3 wds. |
| 43% | OTHELLO | 7 | Shakespeare play about the Moor of Venice |
| 43% | OTHELLO | 7 | Shakespeare play subtitled The Moor of Venice |
| 42% | DROMIO | 6 | — of Ephesus and — of Syracuse, twin slaves in William Shakespeare play The Comedy of Errors |
| 42% | ANTONIO | 7 | Merchant in "The Merchant of Venice" |
| 42% | CASSIO | 6 | Lieutenant of Othello in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
| 42% | VOLUMNIA | 8 | Mother of Coriolanus in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
| 42% | GERTRUDE | 8 | Mother of Hamlet in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
| 42% | MERCHANT | 8 | Shylock, Shakespeare character in The __ of Venice |
| 41% | DESDEMONA | 9 | Wife of Othello in the play of that name by William Shakespeare |
| 41% | OTHELLO | 7 | William Shakespeare play subtitled The Moor of Venice |