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

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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 )

Scout (to kill a mockingbird)
Althea (Liveship trilogy by Robin Hobb)

Can't think of any boy names...

DS1 is named for a character from Asimov's robot novels.

If I had another, I would love to use Beren (Tolkien)

Titian (Swallows and Amazons)
Elinor (the flower from LOTR)
Clowance (Poldark)
Barnabas (The Dark is rising)

I am named after Catherine Earnshaw. My mum thinks Wuthering Heights is romantic. I tried to point out that Catherine is a nutter, but she just doesn't get it!

For girls it would have to be:
Anne (Eliot, from Persuasion and of Green Gables, two of my all time favourite characters)
Jane (Eyre)
Elizabeth (Bennet)
Dorothea (Middlemarch)
Isolde (obvs as in Tristan and Isolde but also from a modern novel called The Rehearsal)

For boys:
Will (Ladislaw from Middlemarch)
Jude (as in, the Obscure)
Gabriel (from Far from the Madding Crowd)
Angel (from Tess)

I've done this already. DS1 is named Oscar after Oscar Wilde AND the baby from Ghostbusters 2; Abraham after Abe Sapien from the Hellboy comics; and Zooey after Zachary Glass from the J.D Salinger novel, Franny and Zooey.

Currently decided on Spike for DS2, after the Elvis Costello Album. Haven't settled on middle names for him yet...

Éowyn. I absolutely love this but I can imagine a lifetime of spelling it out and trying to explain that she's not named after a Hobbit. I'll have to keep it for a middle name.
Sansa, Arya, Juliet, Tyrion, Tess, Arwen, Samwell, Cersei (its a shame she's an incestuous psychopath because the name is quite lovely).

I really wanted Dorian and Jocelyn for boys and Ayla and Fraya for girls all got vetoed except Fraya, but we had a boy so his name is Jude :)

Ooh Blipbipbeep good choice, we have a Jude too! He was very nearly an Atticus though, as was his brother but not brave enough. Maybe if we have another.... Though I also like Ishmael and Gabriel.

For a girl... Hester, Scout, Arya, Tess. Did want Harper but not anymore!

I called my ds after a character from Daphne du Mauriers Jamaica inn if I were to have a girl would be pearl after the daughter in the scarlet letter or arwen I think

colourme Spot on!

I loved those books.

Lucy from the Narnia books. DD was nearly a Lucy right up and until she was about an hour old and we decided she suited a different name.
Matilda or Sophie from Roald Dahl.
Ramona as in Quimby.
Sara from The Little Princess.

Can't really think of boy names so much. Can't explain why. Henry as in Huggins from the Ramona books maybe?

My Grandma's best friend was called Hermione...she was Scottish and it sounded so beautiful in her accent. Her nickname was 'Mione' which was pronounced 'My-a-nee' V. pretty I think but husband is Potterphobe so DD won't be Hermione

Holden, Bo, Esme, Elizabeth, Darcy and Rohan would all be literary names that I liked. But all bar a couple have been used up by friends with kids.

Merrily Watkins - I love those books and it is a lovely name.

Also really like Boo, but decided against that too.

I have an Atticus!
But he's is a dog

I would chose Shasta. What a brilliant name

I had a cat called Ishmail too.
I keep naming my pets brilliant names because I think I am done having babies
Then I have more babies and i can't use them :(

Cassandra (I capture the Castle), Lucy (Room with a View) and Sophie (The tiger who came to tea!)

Cassandra is a beautiful name.

I am quite fond of Inigo (Princess Bride).. not sure other half has reaslied I'm serious and not joking...

Sansa from Game of thrones.

catelyn

Edard

See a theme here? Slightly obsessed....

I agree that Titty from Swallows and Amazons was one of the best characters. Her real name was Mavis. Any takers?

We both loved a few names from Deep Space 9 - although not a novel. I think we'd have both had Jadzia and Nerys (not the Welsh way) until we actually had little girls to name.

I loved a name from a book when I was a teenager that I'd always crossed off for personal reasons, when I was pregnant with my youngest I decided to use it with a different spelling. The book was (or are) The Pendragon Cycle and the name was Charis who was Merlin's mother in the book, I used the Welsh spelling of Carys.

Liking the Game of Thrones names, might have to look at them for the new baby...

A friend of ours recently named their baby Luna and didnt realise it was also a character from harry potter they thought they had come up with a pretty unique name - its pretty but become ever more popular!!

Another friend has named daughter scout after character in too kill a mockingbird

I have inadvertantly named dd after my favourite character form Little WOmen.

Hadn't even thought of the name for years and years. Actually, I think it may have been dh who thought of the name.

The ten year old me would have been made up.

I really love Sansa