Children named after literary characters

[HoneyandRum]

My friends eldest son age 8 is called Thorin after Thorin Oakenshield the head dwarf in The Hobbit.

[SorrelForbes]

No, definitely Theo (Dane I think)

[SorrelForbes]

No, definitely Theo.

[iclaudius]

Was she Thea or am I imagining that

[SorrelForbes]

Of course there's Sylvia, Lydia, Gemma, loads!

[SorrelForbes]

Theo! I love that. What was Madame's first name?

[iclaudius]

Nestor from many a Shakespeare

[iclaudius]

Sorrell my ds s would all have been Posy from Noel streatfield instead I had to make do with Theo from the same

[INeverSaidThat]

DS1 is Oscar after Oscar in The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass. Oscar decides, with good reason, to stop growing up when he is 3 years old.

It's a great book and the film is not bad either.

(The nieghbours dog was called Oscar too )

[MaggieMaggieMaggieMcGill]

It's a very sweet name, perhaps as a shortening of something else? Priscilla perhaps?

[SorrelForbes]

I'd have to go for something from a Noel Streatfeild book of course! I'd love to call a DD Posy but would I be brave enough?

[Minty82]

Ooh yes, Yami, that was the other appeal of Kezia(h). It was one of the names KM used to refer to herself wasn't it?

sparklechops I'm [envious] that you were allowed to use Marianne, but very glad to hear there's a little one about!

[Thisisaeuphemism]

Dd named Miranda but she should have been called tempest.

[thegreylady]

I love Merrily from the Phil Rickman books about Merrily Watkins.
Devin from Tigana and Jaxom from The White Dragon
Sadly no more dc or dgc for me but I love those names.

[Bathsheba]

I have a Tess. DH wouldn't let me use Bathsheba..!!

[CrunchyFrog]

I have an Elijah named after Elijah Baley in the Asimov robot novels.

[saintmerryweather]

I will use edith if i have a girl (children of the new forest) also really like ronica as my grandad is called ron, might have tk use it as a middle name. name is a robin hobb name

[MaggieMaggieMaggieMcGill]

Sense and Sensibilty by any chance?

[sparklechops]

My dd is Marianne. Guess which Jane Austen book I was reading during pregnancy!

[MaggieMaggieMaggieMcGill]

My dd's nickname ( which is used more than her given) is Vivi, after Viviane Abbott Walker from The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
I really wanted to call DS either Titus or Troy, but both names were vetoed by ex-h. He ended up with something that really suits him anyway, so never mind!

[Eggsmummy]

I have a beautiful Florence, named straight from The Magic Roundabout, took all my strength not to name DD2 Ermintrude, it really would have suited her too....

[StetsonsAreCool]

My DD is Darcey Elizabeth. She was 6 weeks old when we realised the P&P connection

Our current favourite as yet hypothetical boy's name is George Elliott. It goes so well with our surname. But we really, really can't do that. Can we?

[PrincessOfThemyscira]

Oh I love Tolly/Toseland too! But I'm still after Diggory...

[A1980]

Diggory from the Magicians Nephew...?

[breadandbutterfly]

Love Meg and Edmund.

DS is Conrad,a family name but also after Joseph Conrad, Dh's favourite author.

[TheYamiOfYawn]

My sister's middle name is Keziah, but from a Katherine Mansfield story.