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 )

Well you learn something new...! I always thought that from Swallows and Amazons was Titian! as in the artist!
Anyway, I'd still have Titian as a nod towards SAA! She was always the character that I most wante to be as a child. Titty ROCKED! She was so brave and clever and inventive!
Other than that, I just adore Melanie Wilkes from Gone With The Wind.
Wendy isn't bad either.

Ohh - Beth or Jo? Or did you have another favourite?

Bertie or Dougal for a boy and Corky for a girl.

Aragorn?

We had dd3 in April this year, baby Alice! Dd's 1 and 2 decided baby had to be a girl and had to be an Alice in wonderland! God knows what he would have been if a boy, probably Captain Underpants if they had their way, rather diverse taste in books my children have!!

I have an Emily.
She's named after a character in another series of books by LM Montgomery (Anne of Green gables author). I loved Anne, but I preferred the Emily of New Moon series.
It also comes a bit from Bagpuss! It's such a happy coincidence that my favourite TV show as a child, and my favourite series of books, had a heroine with the same name.
Found my Mum whispering to dd, not long after she was born "Your Mummy always wanted a little girl called Emily and now she's got you - do you know how special that makes you?" Made me well up a bit! Have bought dd a set of the Emily books for when she's older.

I also have an Emily, named after my favourite book when I was a little girl. Blackberry Farm, Emily was the goat and I decided then if I had a baby girl I wanted her to be called Emily, I also wanted a Farm which I would call Blackberry Farm, but sadly that hasnt happened . I bought her a first edition for her 18th birthday. Not quite a classic, but was to me when I was about 6!

Oooh, I love Emily of New Moon! Have just finished reading them again on my Kindle.

Lavinia from A Little Princess

I chose the name Nathan my DH chose christopher as middle name, which I thought was lovely, then he told me it was a character from xmen comics!

Oops I forget to mention I chose Nathan as I'm a big prince fan and in his song sign of the times, "we will get married have a baby we will call him Nate if it's boy"

Beowulf from Larry Niven's Known Space.

As a name I really liked Jennet from the Woman in Black, but as she was the mad howling ghost I don't think I could inflict it on a baby!! Also like Ruth (Swallows and Amazons) Jane (Eyre) and Emma. Not so sure about boys, although the names I have given my 3 do all regularly appear in tv shows etc etc

DS was going to be Lara Faith, after Lara Raith from Jim Butcher's Dresden books.

I have a Bella - named after the very kind big sister from the Shirley Hughes book Dogger... but realised afterwards that lots of people think it's after the Twilight books!
And a Douglas after Douglas Coupland and a Megan from his book Girlfriend in a Coma.
Totally love Laurie and Jem too if we ever have any more boys...

My dd is ayla after the earths children series

Just like Fanjopingpong I'm a disc world fan and Granny Weatherwax kicks ass! I'm actually overdue and don't know gender so you never know...

DD is named Bridget after the character in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. The first came out when I was 15 and I just fell in love with it. I'm glad no-one has made a connection with Bridget Jones who she is most definitely NOT named for.

Since having DS I have discovered A Song of Ice and Fire and now I have a whole bunch of names/characters I need to have children for

THEtramp, it had to be Jo. Even ended up marrying an older man. But he's not German. ANd we don't have a boy farm.

Great topic
Not mentioned yet
Ofred from handmaids tale - did we ever get her real
name I can't remember
Katniss from hunger games

Scout was always on my list when I was younger, but Demi Moore ruined this for me

I know 4 Lyras. And couldn't stand those books myself.

My children are called Heffalump, Snape and Wonka.

I had an Imogen from both The Forsyte Saga, and What Katy Did.

Ooh and Shakespeare. Shouldn't forget that!

Ditto on the dislike of the Dark Materials books (I could rant on awfulness for ages).

Jo - fantastic! Does she have lovely hair?

I misread katniss as catpiss once and it stuck in my head for the whole book.

We have named my daughter after one of our favourite literary characters - she's Arya which is actually for an elf from the Inheritance Cycle novels (Eragon) rather than from Game of Thrones, however, I have also read Game of Thrones and like the Arya in that too. She's only a month old but think we're going to be spelling/pronouncing it rather a lot, not too bothered by that atm, we knew that would probably be the case when we chose an unusual name, however, she might not thanks us later in life!
I had Atticus on my boys' list as To Kill a Mockingbird is probably my all-time favourite novel, however, DH wasn't that keen, I think he might have been a bit more open to it if he'd actually read it as I've been trying to get him to do for years! We also had Lyra on our girl's shortlist.