Literary Names

[Nightstar]

I'm a writer and wanted to pick a name that shows my connection to literature, but cant think of anything I like!

I suggested some names from LOTR and from Shakespeare to my husband, but he thought the LOTR ones were too wierd and the Shakers ones were too mainstream to be obvious where they were from.

I need a boys name that says "From a famous book" like Sherlock, but not quite so odd. Does that make sense?

oi becky you're a bit literaray yourself, innit

I'm not pregnant, btw
still think Ted's a fine offer

May I add Sebastian? I think it's lovely but it just doesn't fit with my family name or the name we chose for DS (imagine a Horatio and a Max).

I'm not pregnant either.

Atticus

Is he handy with his fists, though? :o

I would assume that someone who named their daughter Ophelia was an incredibly cool, clever and generally fantastic individual who knows perfectly well what it means ta very much

Lockets do you see that DS5 name mark1 appears on this thread!! Albeit with the different spelling!! I nealy fainted!

What about Rollo? That's a nice, underused name. (King Rollo isn't exactly great literature, I'll grant you)

Or Milo (from Phantom Tollbooth, or Catch 22)

or Gilbert (Blythe, from AOGG)

Diggory (Magician's Nephew)

I know someone who has a 'Hardy' (as in Thomas...)

You could probably get away with Austen as a forename.

My children each have names of my favourite authors amongst theirs. I think it's a lovely thing to do- those authors have given me a great many hours of pleasure in life, and it is a tiny honour in thanks.

Dashiell or Conrad, if you include authors.

Wow so many names...let us know what you choose, OP!

Sorry but I lol'ed at "name your child from something you like - otherwise it seems pointless just to name your child after a theme".

I shall be trotting that one out anytime anyone would like a list of themed names - no more nature, flower, oldies but goodies, royal, nickname-proof, or practically any other category is ok in this boars then?

Some of you really need to get off your high horses and remember that this is a baby name board. Sheesh.

Fwiw, OP, I would also love my child to have a literary name, and bollocks to anyone saying "remember the characters!" - I doubt anyone named their child Cameron because of its lovely meaning (crooked nose) but rather bc they liked it - which surely is what choosing a name is all about.

NAO- I have never come across a child with the original name for your DS5- it's lovely, and very underused. (not that what you went with isn't!!!)

Leopold
Stephen

Thankyou etinterra!! Are you aware that i named him one name - that appears on this thread - and then re named him 6 weeks later ! His new name ( now nearly 3 and a half, is also met with silence!

Only a handful of people have heard of it...one woman at school who used to sit next to one in primary school in wales 50 years ago, a couple who have spanish or south american links ( v popular there) and one old lady in town who asked me his name and without hesistating said 'How beautiful - I love old English names' she pleased me most!

Shakespeare used his name in six or seven plays/sonnets - some well known ones - never a lead role...

It was also in the Iliad - to be frank - and to explain my real harping on about it - I think it to be a really lovely name and do not understand why so so unpopular!

Now I'm going to spend Christmas wondering what it is...

I used to know one!

'Tis I!

Christmas name, is all...

did you actually know one??

Yes! (sure I told you this before?) From secondary school.

The name he's using now, that is.

Um how can you keep talking about this name and not tell us what it is?! I'm pregnant and may cry over this

Feel free to pm

Is it Jesus?

Clues:
Old English name
Popular in South America
A few minor roles in Shakespeare
And the Iliad

And now I'm all confused as to whether the name in question is the first name or the replacement name...