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Your favourite names from children's literature

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MammieBear · 14/09/2017 12:51

As the title says really, looking for both Boy's and Girl's names.
Thankyou 😊

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MaroonPencil · 15/09/2017 20:44

Kitty! I have never met anyone else who read those books. I loved them.
You didn't happen to also read Matthews Secret Surprises and Where Matthew Lives did you - nobody ever seems to have read them either.

kittytom · 15/09/2017 18:26

Ps I have just remembered Aurora and Socrates, the latter always makes me chuckle. I have loved re-reading that book to my daughter. I think I would like her parents!

kittytom · 15/09/2017 18:18

*DD not Dad. He wouldn't be interested!

kittytom · 15/09/2017 18:17

Footle ah, yes that is much nicer. I did reflect afterwards that at 7 I didn't have the desperate housewives connotation! Linnet is lovely. I can't wait to re-read that book to my DAD self

GaucheCaviar · 15/09/2017 13:31

Bartholomew > Tolly

Firenight · 15/09/2017 11:24

Loads of these!

Linnet from Green Knowe
Arrietty from the Borrowers
Benedict from Cynthia Harnett's "Load of Unicorn" or Cecile from the same author's "The Woolpack"
Edmund or Caspian from Narnia
Estel (Aragorn's childhood name in LOTR)
Meg (A wrinkle in time)

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MammieBear · 15/09/2017 11:13

@thecraddock Ariadne is a Lovely name, I'd forgotten about the water babies.

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thecraddock · 15/09/2017 11:01

Ariadne - the water babies

SuperBeagle · 15/09/2017 10:56

DD1's middle name is Chenault after the character in Hunter S. Thompson's book "The Rum Diary".

  • Arwen, from The Lord of the Rings
  • Genevieve, from Madeline
  • Madeline, from Madeline
  • Magdalena, from Magdalene in the Bible
  • Matilda, from Matilda
  • Penelope, from Angelina Ballerina
  • Selah from Hunter S. Thompson's writings
  • Scarlett from Gone With the Wind
  • Violet, from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  • Aslan, from The Chronicles of Narnia
  • Aldous, after Aldous Huxley
  • Byron, after Lord Byron
  • Orson, after Orson Welles
  • Samuel, after Samuel Taylor Colleridge
MaroonPencil · 15/09/2017 09:57

Oh I had forgotten Annie Rose, DS actually was going to be Annie Rose if he was a girl (Anna for best).

grecian100 · 15/09/2017 08:08

Very nostalgic about Alfie and Annie-Rose. Would never use them though.

bettys · 15/09/2017 08:00

squoosh yes he was, I always had a soft spot for him. I preferred the 'R' books to the Famous Five

Cagliostro · 15/09/2017 07:59

Julian, famous five
Lyra, his dark materials
Albus, Harry Potter

LegArmpits · 15/09/2017 07:40

Georgina, Famous Five

EivissaSenorita · 15/09/2017 07:32

Gruffalo

DappledThings · 15/09/2017 07:28

And Joey, short for Josephine from The Chalet School. Actually lots from that series!

emmeline7725 · 15/09/2017 07:24

Sephy from Noughts and Crosses (short for Persephone)

Also like Mildred (The Worst Witch)

Footle · 15/09/2017 07:12

kittytom, it's not Linette in Green Knowe, it's the much more beautiful
Linnet, like the bird. Such a good name but probably difficult to get it pronounced with stress on first syllable.

Carouselfish · 15/09/2017 00:37

Connie and Silky from The Faraway Tree
Daryl from Mallory Towers
Lottie from Little Princess
Marmalade (Atkins) wouldn't actually use it except for a cat!

squoosh · 15/09/2017 00:20

bettys I loved the Ring O Bells Mystery! Wasn't Barney the circus boy with a monkey called Miranda who would would come to entertain the lovely middle class kids? Grin

saffronwblue · 15/09/2017 00:17

Loveday Minette from the little white horse
Dinah and Dorinda from The Wind on the Moon

kittytom · 15/09/2017 00:16

Laughing at Jennifer Yellow Hat. I have a friend who has a Jennifer and I remember asking her if she named her after that iconic character Wink

My favourite is Alice. Although I don't really like the book.

I remember when I was little liking the name Linette from The Children of Green Knowe. And Elizabeth from Hannibal the Hamster...

Bouncingbelle · 15/09/2017 00:15

Abigail (childhood book about an awful awful Abigail but love the name!)
Scout
Blythe (Gilbert Blythe from Anne of green gables)

cuirderussie · 15/09/2017 00:11

Topaz in I Capture The Castle

BeatriceBeaudelaire · 15/09/2017 00:09

Oh!
And Kaladin - The Way of Kings