Literary baby names?

oh Lara from Zhivago... on my list

I loved Marilla from Anne of Green Gables and thought Millie would be quite a sweet nn...DH looked as though I'd suggested naming the child Rutabaga or something.

I don't recommend trying my name! Funny how it's not very popular these days though she's a delightful character.

I am quite keen on literary middle names. DD has one from classical literature. Also my two favourite Skakespearean characters are Beatrice and Benedick and I've sometimes wondered about using those names. The problem with Benedick is that everyone would think it was Benedict and that would never do!

My eldest has a name from Lord of The Rings & youngest from Gone With the Wind.

Well, thanks everyone! I have now added Jude, Tristan, Jem and Calvin to my list . Very jealous of those of you 'allowed' to have Atticus, though .

Another one that hasn't been mentioned is Lata (from A Suitable Boy) which was going to be on my list if bump had been a girl (though I think Lara would have won out - yes yes, from Tomb Raider not Dr Zhivago ).

I love Noah and Eloise - Noah after Noah (!) and Eloise after the little girl who lived in the Plaza with her nanny!! So both literary, though one's Biblical and the other's a cartoon...

I also love Imogen, Olivia and Abigail for girls - all literary, though Abigail rather unfortunately as everytime I hear it I think of witches and screaming girls.

I was named after my dad's favorite literary character, Alice in Wonderland. Dad spent his adult life collecting different editions/illustrations/translations of the books, and other stuff by and about Lewis Carroll. I love being part of that collection. He had to wait through 2 boys first before he got a girl to call me Alice.

Just remembered - wanted Gilbert after Anne of Green Gables love interest - but was denied by DH...

Love Scout and Harper - DH wouldn't stand for it though. And Cassandra from I Capture the Castle. Or Nancy, after the Mitfords. Quite like Juliet too but, again, a no from DH. I have a personal theory re names - first ones tend to be conservative, second quite wacky - because you don't know if it'll be the last chance you get to call your child Atticus, or whatever ...

I do think it's sad, carrots. My DH is much the same way; he's shy but really kind to children.

I do think there may have been something to the whole Lewis Carroll thing though, given the poem and all, but I don't think he ever actually did anything.

I had a much more well-thought out post on the subject but was up all night with a migraine and can't remember my own name.

Whoever mentioned Harper for a boy, I think it definitely works for either.

I'm not sure, I only heard it mentioned. My spelling has always been a bit abstract anyway. (Probubly the reason I like traditional names, I stand a better chance of spelling them).

Mummyloves - shouldn't it be Lytton (if it's after Mr Strachey?)

My step sister is calling her baby boy Litton. I can't say I'm too keen personally, but then, I do prefere more boring traditional names.

My ds was named Wilfred after Wilfred Owen, i didnt realise till afterwards about "Wilfred of Ivanhoe" When he was a baby we had a very eccentric retired school teacher in our village who used to peer in the pram and say "how is young Ivanhoe then??"

If I remember GCSE lit clearly, Harper was a name chosen as a male pseudonym by the female author.

So you could totally use it for a boy.

My 3rd child has a literary nickname - Boud - after the nickname used amongst the Mitford sisters. I was having a Mitford season just after she was born and it just kind of stuck.

I would have called DD Atticus if she'd been a boy. If DC2 ever comes and is male, then it will be on the list.

I wanted to call DD Dorothea, after Dorothea Brooke from Middlemarch, but Bloke wouldn't have it.

Ooh, ooh Calvin. After Calvin and Hobbes. Not really literary but like a lot...

My DD is named after a book character, and my DS after a song

I'll out myself if I name them though

cheerful I don't believe the paedo stuff for a moment. Why a man who likes the company of children must be a paedo as opposed to just a shy bloke who liked to entertain children with fabulous stories is beyond me. My husband loves being with kids because he's basically just a big kid himself, and he's great with them. He's the best daddy, and parents love him coz he usually entertains the kids while they sit and drink wine! It's really sad, don't you think?

However, thank you very much for the suggestion

I asked a friend for ideas and she came up with "Pooh". (who needs enemies!!!)

Next one is a boy - would it be too much to call him Atticus, [wonders]?

DD's middle name is Harper. Couldn't resist .

I have a Jem (from To Kill a Mockingbird)

I quite like the name Vivianne for DC2 if a girl, from the Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood,my fave.