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If you had to name a child after a favourite book character....

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lemoncurdcupcake · 01/06/2026 14:56

....what would their name be?

Try and be decisive, no more than 2 suggestions per sex!

For me:
Boy: Gilbert or Laurie
Girl: Ginny

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LittleGreenDuck · 01/06/2026 20:29

Moonface
Darrell

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 01/06/2026 20:24

Me - girl - Ramona (Quimby) - boy - Danny (Champion of the World). Although these are not my children’s names!

My dad, using a similar method to name me, went with the little girl in Wonderland.

Cairneyes · 01/06/2026 20:22

KnitWitsAnonymous · 01/06/2026 15:37

I loved Heidi too . . .

Did you name either of your sons Peter?!

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Eldest’s middle name😊

KnitWitsAnonymous · 01/06/2026 20:20

I used to wish my DM had named me Milly-Molly-Mandy!

RemoteControlledChaos · 01/06/2026 20:20

Ursula (from the Kate Atkinson book Life After Life)
Ramona

TooManyRabbitsAndNotEnoughChickens · 01/06/2026 20:14

Bee 🐝. From theRobin Hobb books

Calliopespa · 01/06/2026 20:11

Stinkymalinkyfromdownthelane · 01/06/2026 19:31

Boy: conrad
Girl: hermione

Oh your username has made me decide: I want to be called Slinky Malinki!

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 01/06/2026 19:44

Alice

Daniel (The Shadow of the Wind) or
Rudy (The Book Thief)

GenerousGardener · 01/06/2026 19:40

Janet. O Caledonia.

MsSquiz · 01/06/2026 19:31

I wanted to name DD1 Minnerva or Hermione - DH vetoed both so we went with Charlotte.

what I didn’t tell him was I loved the name because of Charlotte’s web!

Stinkymalinkyfromdownthelane · 01/06/2026 19:31

Boy: conrad
Girl: hermione

SouthLondonMum22 · 01/06/2026 19:26

I did! Well, it's a reason why I have always loved the name.

DD is Matilda.

Enko · 01/06/2026 19:23

Dd1 is named after dhs favourite book. JD Salingers "The catcher in the Rye"

For me it would be

girls Ayla. (Jean Auel Earth children series)
Ida (Astrid Lindgreen - Emil fra Lønnebjerg)

Boys.
Hector - Greek myths
Not sure I can add a 2nd Ive always struggled w boys names its a wonder ds ever got a name.

Calliopespa · 01/06/2026 19:18

followtheswallow · 01/06/2026 16:04

Snap!

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Yep snap for me too: Lucy and then Alice

Boys: Diggory (in Magician's Nephew then professor in LW and W)

MissDixieVoom · 01/06/2026 19:09

Anne. I can’t think of a boy’s name from my favourite books that I’d want to use.

NotAnotherRebecca · 01/06/2026 18:20

Kizzy (Keziah) from the Diddakoi.
Jude, from Jude the Obscure.

These were the names we had lined up for DC2 but a few weeks before their arrival, we changed our minds and went with a different one. I'd still use these names though.

Lulu1919 · 01/06/2026 18:17

Scout

pinkgown · 01/06/2026 18:15

My son and daughter are both named after book characters - one from a series of children's books and the other from a gothic fantasy. They both seem happy with their unusual names.

EverydayRoutine · 01/06/2026 18:10

Great idea for a thread! It's hard to choose just two each.

Girls:
Nicola from Antonia Forest's wonderful books about the Marlow family.
Josephine (Jo) from Little Women.

Boys:
William (Will) from K.M. Peyton's Flambards series (and a twofer, since Will is also the name of a character from a book called White Ghost Summer, which I loved as a child).
Guy from Olivia Manning's Fortunes of War and its sequels.

I always loved the character Dickon from The Secret Garden, but I expect that it would be rather unfair to give a child that name these days.

TheKittenswithMittens · 01/06/2026 18:01

Big Ears. Just finished reading Noddy cheers up Big ears

squashyhat · 01/06/2026 17:54

Nancy (Blackett) or Tom (Dudgeon). Or Timothy for my namesake (or better still the real person he was based on - Oscar Gnosspelius Grin)

mayflowers9 · 01/06/2026 17:51

I also adored Anne of Green Gables – so maybe Katherine with a K!

Yellowpapersun · 01/06/2026 17:44

Jean Louise (Scout's real name)
Catherine (Earnshaw)
Jude (The Obscure!)
William (Russell, Flambards)

Whosthetabbynow · 01/06/2026 17:41

Miffy

Hatty65 · 01/06/2026 17:35

Loveday Minette from The Little White Horse.

I'd love to have been called that.

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