Names with a literary slant

[LotsofDots]

Looking for some inspiration for no. 3. DC1 and 2 have accidentally both ended up with names from classic children's books and I'd quite like no 3 to do so as well.

Can you give me suggestions of names that fit this criteria please?

E.g.
Alice (in wonderland)
Wendy (Peter pan)
Peter (pan, or rabbit)
Harry (potter)

Thanks!

[Horseshoe1]

Matilda
Charlie (Choc factory)
William
George (Marv medicine)
Danny (champion of the world)
Heidi
Oliver (twist)
Jim (Hawkins, treasure Island)
Max (where the wild things are)
Caspian
Lucy, Susan (Narnia)
Tom (midnight garden, goodnight mister)
Scout (TKAM)
Katy (what Katy did)
Madeline (French books)
Anne (of green gables)
Charlotte ('s web)
James (giant peach)
Emil (and the detectives)

[FennellaFitzWelly]

To be honest I'd imagine most mainstream names have an accompanying fictional character in children's literature if you look for one.

Mary (The Secret Garden)
Clover, Katy (What Katy Did)
John , Susan and Nancy (Swallows and Amazons) maybe not Titty though!
Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (The Story of the Treasure Seekers)
Anne, Diana, Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables)
Petra, Posy, Pauline (Ballet Shoes)
Robin, Christopher (Winnie the Pooh)
Bonnie, Sylvia (The Wolves of Willoughby Chase)
Emil (Emil and the Detectives)
Carrie (Carrie's War)
Sara (A Little Princess)

[LotsofDots]

fenella probably yes, but would prefer to pick one with a good moral character! For example while I rather like the name Violet, beauregarde is not someone to aspire to!
I'm a big fan of Swallows and Amazons - Nancy, Peggy and Ruth are all on the possible list. Titty less so, as you say!

[BlueChampagne]

LotsofDots don't forget Dora too (notice Roger and Dick didn't make the Swallows & Amazons cut either)
Ada (Goth Girl)
Flavia or Miriam (Roman Mysteries)
Philippa (Pippi Longstocking)
Maria (A Little White Horse)
Meg, Jo, Beth or Amy (Little Women)
Clara (Heidi)
Mary, Laura (Little House on the Prairie)
Dorothy (Wizard of Oz)
Simon, Jane, Barney (Over Sea Under Stone)
Gemma

[FennellaFitzWelly]

Cassandra (I Capture The Castle)
Roberta (Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter (The Railway Children)
Tolly/Toseland (The Children of Green Knowe)
Perdita (One Hundred and One Dalmations) she is a dog though!

[FennellaFitzWelly]

Edward, Humphrey, Alice and Edith (Children of the New Forest)
Robert, Anthea, Cyril, Jane and er, The Lamb (Five Children and It)
Gerald, James and Kathleen (The Enchanted Castle)

I do like a bit of E Nesbit

[FennellaFitzWelly]

Ha, yes. I did leave Roger and Dick out. Forgot about Dora though!

[StDogolphin]

Anne
Georgina
Julian
Dick
Timothy
Pamela
Barbara
Janet
Peter
George
Colin
Scamper

[StDogolphin]

Will
Jane
Barney
Simon
(The Dark is Rising Sequence)

[manicinsomniac]

Rebecca (Sunnybrook Farm)
Pollyanna
Elizabeth (Naughtiest Girl)
Milly, Molly or Mandy
Lyra (Northern Lights)

[TheBalefulGroke]

It isn't 'Dora', it's Dorothea!

[shutupandshop]

Cathy
Heathcliffe
Peter, my fav after watching PAN

[nellyflora]

You might find it easyer to find names you like then check if in any books.
We all know Alice in wonderland and Oliver Twist but probably any name you like is in a book!
Beatrix potter names
Peter, Jeramy, Samuel , Benjamin,Isaac ,jack,John, tom ,Ptolemy , Timmy, Anna Maria, Jane, lucie, tabither , Jemima, Rebecca , Sally , thomosina, Lucinda ( just a few)
Julian, Dick ( Richard), Anne, Georgina ( famous five)
Mildred, Maude , Agatha, Enid, Ethel (worst witch)
George, James , Sophie, Matilda, Charlie (Roald Dahl)
Darrell, Alicia, Mary-Lou , Gwendoline, Sally, Alison, Hilary, Carlotta, Janet, Doris, Kitty, Angela, Alma, Elsie, Gladys, Mirabell, Anne-Marie, Claudine, Antiinette, Roberta, Ellis, Winifred, Pat, Isabel Tessie, Margery,Lucy, Erica, Priscilla, Joan (a few Edid blight on names)

[crapfatbanana]

Alison, Gwyn (The Owl Service)
Huck, Tom, Finn, Sawyer
Sophie (Sophie's World or BFG)
Darrell, Alicia, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou, Sally (Malory Towers)
Ramona (Quimby)
Jane or Michael (Mary Poppins)
Olga (da Polga)
Hermione, Neville, Luna (Harry Potter)
Milo (The Phantom Tollbooth)
Arabel ('s Raven)
Simon, Dido, Justin (Black Hearts in Bettersea)

[LotsofDots]

nellyflora in theory that would be easier but we are having trouble deciding what we like - hoping that someone will suggest something and I'll go, oh yes, that's perfect!

While I could probably find a book with any name in, our elder two are definitely names you associate with a particular book character when you hear them and I think that is what I'm after...

At the moment I'm leaning towards Nancy
Wendy
Alice
(Perdita - doubt I could convince my husband, but 101D was my absolute favourite book)

George
James
Stanley

Boys are harder...

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

[PennyHasNoSurname]

Dd is Meg (Little Women)

Her MN is Alice

If we had had another girl, Juliet would have been in there somewhere.

[Allalonenow]

Heidi

Dickon

[moggle]

I've just become an aunty to a Lyra :-D IMO a fabulous character to be named after.

[evenoldergregg]

How about Violet Baudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate Events?

[gnat99]

Ooh yes, Lyra is lovely.

More Enid Blyton: Dinah, Fenella, Carlotta.

Chalet School: Richenda....

Perdita is also the long lost daughter in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

[LotsofDots]

evenoldergregg it will always be associated with "Violet, you're turning violet, Violet!"

[LotsofDots]

Posted too early...

Was supposed to say
Will always be associated with "Violet... Etc" in my head, no matter how many others I come across!

[DontKillMyVibe]

Arrietty (the burrowers) - love this name but DP has vetoed it