Good names from Literature

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DD has a first name that is a character from Little Women (and Family Guy which we didnt realise til well after she was born). Her MN is "in Wonderland".

I read a lot as a child and still do and as well as loving the names, I like the literary connection.

I have no clue of what to name this baby - dont know yet if boy or girl - but part of me is so tempted to carry on the literaey theme.

Can you suggest me a few nice names that are from literature (almost obviously so)?

Demelza but I'm not sure it goes with your dd's name... Love it though but wasn't brave enough.

Jewelled It isnt In Wonderland. I just didnt want to type out her whole.name.

Ha, thank god for that!

Arrietty - from The Borrowers
Lyra - from His Dark Materials
Eloise
Pippi
Pollyanna
Scout - from To Kill a Mockingbird

These are all names I associate with books straight away - I'm still thinking about boys' names!

Rebecca
Jane (Eyre)
Elizabeth (Bennett)
Emma

I also agree Tess goes well with Meg & that Juliet immediately brings Romeo & Juliet to mind.

Boys names definitely are harder! I wonder if that's because men were often referred to by their surname in classic literature - Darcy, Rochester etc. etc. There's always Pat - as in Postman .

Maggie (Tulliver)
Effi (Briest)
Anna (Karenina)...
hang on....just had a thought....why do all the heroines in novels die?

Marking my place in case anyone comes up with my ideal boys name for dc4( sex as yet unknown)

If its a girl we're going for hermione. More after norris than grainger tbh. On the short list were also lyra and matilda.

No idea for a boy so inspiration needed

Huckleberry
Gulliver
Moby

Boys names are very hard!

(call me) Ishmael
Tom (Sawyer)
David (Copperfield)
Phillip Pirrip (lol)

Digory from The Magician's Nephew. This is what DD would have been if she had been a DS!

My DD also has a LW name (different one) plus Alice.

Mary, Laura, carrie, grace (Little House on the Prairie)
Jane, elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, Lydia (Bennet sisters, pride and prej)
Elinor, marianne (sense and sensibility)
Yuri, Lara, Tonya (dr zhivago)
Jay (gatsby), Daisy
Lucy, freddy, Cecil (a room with a view)
Eustacia, Bathsheba (more Hardy characters)
Angel (Angel Clare in Tess - NB he's a man)
Nigel (molesworth)
Gregor (Samsa)

Lots of beautiful names in Shakespeare

DD (2 yrs) suggests Peppa

Dobby from Harry potter??

Laurence/Laurie is great as you get an author too (Laurie Lee).
Wasn't Gulliver's first name Lemuel?
Heath(cliffe)
Adam (Bede)
Felix (Holt)
Conrad
Byron

I love Caspian and want to use it for impending DS2. DH is proving irritatingly resilient! DS1 is an Edward (after Mr Rochester) and I can't tell you the number of times someone has said "Oh, you must be a Twilight fan!" I've never actually read the books or seen the films

Silas (Marner)

Antonia (Shimerdas)
Cosette
Lavinia (Titus)
Tamora (Titus again...)

Rhett (Butler)
Dorian (Grey)
Ichabod (Crane) if only I had the confidence!
Victor (Frankenstein)

Most of the good names tend to come to a sticky end, especially the girls! I was going to suggest Moll (Flanders) but then realised you'd have Meg and Moll

I always wanted a Hareton.

PS - I also thought at first that your DD's middle name actually was 'In Wonderland' I do know someone who's middle name is Danger, so it didn't seem that weird...

Dorothea

Polly ( cazalet, Narnia)

Nancy

Isolde

Diggory

Piers. (Snowman)

Samuel

Grr. Meant plowman not snowman!

I love love love Silas ,unfortunately I only had DD s.

Ummm
19th c and before:
Heathcliff
Hamlet
Jude (the obscure)
Guy (Crouchback)
Charles and Sebastian
Branwell
Siegfried (Sassoon)
Winston (Smith)

But probably not
21 century:
Kevin.

We don't want to talk about him.

Or how about

Blue
Rough
Lonely

Oh wait, wrong shelf.

I was also named after my parents' mutual favourite literary character. Alice. Which is also dd' s middle name ( there is a much longer version of that story which shows I.am not totally self centered).

Boys - Christopher, Robin, William, Harry, Phillip/ Pip, Oliver, Jeremy (Fisher)
Girls - Pippy, Katie, Juliet, Helena, in fact all the rest of Shakespear.....

All the E Nesbit children too.
Topsy
Tim