If you were going to call your kids after your favourite novel characters....

DD is named Bridget after the character in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. The first came out when I was 15 and I just fell in love with it. I'm glad no-one has made a connection with Bridget Jones who she is most definitely NOT named for.

Since having DS I have discovered A Song of Ice and Fire and now I have a whole bunch of names/characters I need to have children for

Just like Fanjopingpong I'm a disc world fan and Granny Weatherwax kicks ass! I'm actually overdue and don't know gender so you never know...

My dd is ayla after the earths children series

I have a Bella - named after the very kind big sister from the Shirley Hughes book Dogger... but realised afterwards that lots of people think it's after the Twilight books!
And a Douglas after Douglas Coupland and a Megan from his book Girlfriend in a Coma.
Totally love Laurie and Jem too if we ever have any more boys...

DS was going to be Lara Faith, after Lara Raith from Jim Butcher's Dresden books.

As a name I really liked Jennet from the Woman in Black, but as she was the mad howling ghost I don't think I could inflict it on a baby!! Also like Ruth (Swallows and Amazons) Jane (Eyre) and Emma. Not so sure about boys, although the names I have given my 3 do all regularly appear in tv shows etc etc

Beowulf from Larry Niven's Known Space.

Oops I forget to mention I chose Nathan as I'm a big prince fan and in his song sign of the times, "we will get married have a baby we will call him Nate if it's boy"

I chose the name Nathan my DH chose christopher as middle name, which I thought was lovely, then he told me it was a character from xmen comics!

Oooh, I love Emily of New Moon! Have just finished reading them again on my Kindle.

Lavinia from A Little Princess

I also have an Emily, named after my favourite book when I was a little girl. Blackberry Farm, Emily was the goat and I decided then if I had a baby girl I wanted her to be called Emily, I also wanted a Farm which I would call Blackberry Farm, but sadly that hasnt happened . I bought her a first edition for her 18th birthday. Not quite a classic, but was to me when I was about 6!

I have an Emily.
She's named after a character in another series of books by LM Montgomery (Anne of Green gables author). I loved Anne, but I preferred the Emily of New Moon series.
It also comes a bit from Bagpuss! It's such a happy coincidence that my favourite TV show as a child, and my favourite series of books, had a heroine with the same name.
Found my Mum whispering to dd, not long after she was born "Your Mummy always wanted a little girl called Emily and now she's got you - do you know how special that makes you?" Made me well up a bit! Have bought dd a set of the Emily books for when she's older.

We had dd3 in April this year, baby Alice! Dd's 1 and 2 decided baby had to be a girl and had to be an Alice in wonderland! God knows what he would have been if a boy, probably Captain Underpants if they had their way, rather diverse taste in books my children have!!

Aragorn?

Bertie or Dougal for a boy and Corky for a girl.

Ohh - Beth or Jo? Or did you have another favourite?

Well you learn something new...! I always thought that from Swallows and Amazons was Titian! as in the artist!
Anyway, I'd still have Titian as a nod towards SAA! She was always the character that I most wante to be as a child. Titty ROCKED! She was so brave and clever and inventive!
Other than that, I just adore Melanie Wilkes from Gone With The Wind.
Wendy isn't bad either.

I really love Sansa

I have inadvertantly named dd after my favourite character form Little WOmen.

Hadn't even thought of the name for years and years. Actually, I think it may have been dh who thought of the name.

The ten year old me would have been made up.

A friend of ours recently named their baby Luna and didnt realise it was also a character from harry potter they thought they had come up with a pretty unique name - its pretty but become ever more popular!!

Another friend has named daughter scout after character in too kill a mockingbird

Liking the Game of Thrones names, might have to look at them for the new baby...

We both loved a few names from Deep Space 9 - although not a novel. I think we'd have both had Jadzia and Nerys (not the Welsh way) until we actually had little girls to name.

I loved a name from a book when I was a teenager that I'd always crossed off for personal reasons, when I was pregnant with my youngest I decided to use it with a different spelling. The book was (or are) The Pendragon Cycle and the name was Charis who was Merlin's mother in the book, I used the Welsh spelling of Carys.

I agree that Titty from Swallows and Amazons was one of the best characters. Her real name was Mavis. Any takers?

Sansa from Game of thrones.

catelyn

Edard

See a theme here? Slightly obsessed....

Cassandra is a beautiful name.

I am quite fond of Inigo (Princess Bride).. not sure other half has reaslied I'm serious and not joking...