Children named after literary characters

[HoneyandRum]

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

Diggory from the Magicians Nephew...?

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

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?

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....

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!

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

Sense and Sensibilty by any chance?

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

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

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

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.

Dd named Miranda but she should have been called tempest.

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!

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?

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

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 )

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

Nestor from many a Shakespeare

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

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

Was she Thea or am I imagining that

No, definitely Theo.

No, definitely Theo (Dane I think)