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

[AlfieBear87]

What names would you choose?

I think mine would by Ayla for a girl (from the earth children series) and Harry for a boy (from Harry Potter )

Some fabulous names here. I love Ged (Earthsea - beats HP off the globe), Lyra and I always liked Charlotte from C's web. I'm sure there's more ... Atticus obviously and Finn (Finn McCool - Irish Giant).

Oh and Wart from one of the Arthur books (TH White)

I had a cousin called Heathcliffe.

I love the name Sirius! The from Harry Potter part makes it a no...

Ribena - Heathcliffe really? HE was an UTTER git!
(and wasn't Rebecca too?)

They are still my favourite characters. I didn't claim they were nice people . I am never sure about Rebecca though - it's all come second hand from the husband and he does rather have motive for painting a nasty picture...

True enough Ribena. She (DuMaurier) should have written a *leave the bastard" book in response.

I am actually about to read 'Rebecca's Tale' - which I think her estate sanctioned (not sure about that)- which is intended to be her side of the story.

According to DP - Jimmy the Hand, Paul Muad'Dib and Kruppe.

Fortunately DP is not in charge of naming the DCs.

Atticus or Titus (Gormenghast trilogy) for a boy. Sadly, although his character is far more memorable, Steerpike is not a name I would suggest! From children's books, Chrestomanci.

Girls more tricky - favourite would obviously be Scout, but I suppose Anne (of Green Gables) or Esme (Weatherwax, Discworld) are in the running too.

I did this.

My eldest dd is named after the second Miss Bennett.

I read it at a young age. I think she (the character, obviously) was my first girl crush.

Ooh Fabrice..

I've always assumed Titty's name was Letitia, which I do like.

Love Dorothea, as it was my adored granny's name , though I find her irritating.

Sally, both from Enid Blyton ( I much preferred both her and her name to the androgynous Darrell) and a wonderful 1950s book called Sally's Family published by the Seagull Library.

Nicola, from the Marlowes.

Jessica and Portia from the Merchant of Venice.

But we only had a Ds.

Hedda from The Children's Book (too uncultured to have read Ibsen).

Joey, Chiara or Gisela from the Chalet School

Asher from Asher Lev, Chaim Potok

Djuna....Anais Nin....well, I like the name Jorma most, it's so bold.

I had a hamster whose middle name was Raskolnikov. Height of 15 year old ponciness.

Oh yeah, forgot about Scout!

Plus Tadzio :)

Ach we all have Heathcliff in us, a bit of wild Haworthian heather and heavy heart with flashing eyes and distant glare.....we all have a bit of the git in us too. Is true.

Edward and Bella

Just kidding

at Quirrel

Be interested in Rebecca's Tale.

Dinah from Red Tent.

I'm so pleased to see some Dark Is Rising fans. DS5 was actually named from those books (Barney & Simon)

I also love Phil Rickman, and Merrily is such a pretty name but I'd worry I'd end up giving birth to a miserable girl!

Stephen Lawhead is another of my faves and I love the names Taliesin (boy) and Charis (girl)

Lyra (His Dark Materials) or Arya (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Faramir (LOTR) or Ron (Harry Potter)

Holden from Catcher in the Rye, Owen from Prayer for Owen Meany, Jude from Jude the Obscure or Leopold from Ulysses for a boy.

Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice, Anna from Anna Karenina, Esther from The Bell Jar or Hester from The Scarlet Letter for a girl.

When I was 14 I decided that if I had a son, I would call him Kheldar. for anyone who can correctly identify the works of towering literary genius book(s) I got that one from.

alma is it from The Belgariad series? My DBro was obsessed with them when he was a teenager and I read the one summer when I was stuck inside with glandular fever.

Jean louise To Kill a Mocking Bird, Samuel, The Runner (Cynthia Voight), Charles, Little House on the Prairie, and dh named the other two.

I did name DD after Lucy from Narnia - I always said if I had a girl she would be Lucy. And had she been a boy, she'd have been Ged, except we'd have spelt it Jed.

I used to love the name Atticus until I was at a lecture where the speaker (using TKAM as inspiration) kept pronouncing it "adequate". He was telling us all to strive to be an "Adequate Finch".

Since then I've really considered myself a superlative sparrow, and decided I would giggle too much if I ever named a child that...

ooh, Nyx, i loved Ged, but Jed is more hillbilly than wise wizard.