Best names for literary heroines

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And would you use them?

I thought I would celebrate my recent NC with a thread so here is is :)

My favourite names from books are Karou from the Daughter of Smoke and bone, Katnis from The Hungers Games and Ayla from Earths Children. If I was to have a girl I think I would use Karou.

notice that my top two are made up names that begin with K MNetters

I love Katniss - if hunger games wasn't so big at the moment I would love to use it!

Katniss isn't a made up name. It's just another flower, albeit a less popular one.

Now you mention it I remember that from the book rose

Dorothea :)

Fuchsia from Gormanghast and Tintagieu (Tanty for short) from Mr Pye, both by Mervyn Peake.

Margery.

Probably not my favourite name, but if the heroine's called this, I always enjoy the book (can only think of Robert Neill's Mist Over Pendle and Sheri Tepper's Grass for now, but there are others).

Katniss reminds me of catnip.

Marian. Not my favourite name but Marian Halcombe is my favourite literary heroine.

Gotta love Bathsheba Everdene from Far from the Madding Crowd.

Actually, isn't Katniss an Everdeen? Maybe it's a nod to Thomas Hardy! They both have to choose between men, don't they? Or am I thinking too much into this?

Bathsheba is a great name. My RL name is from Thomas Hardy :)

I think Arya and Sansa from GOT are pretty.

I have a Romilly from The Autumn Ghosts

I used Scarlett!

Toyed with the idea of Katie Scarlett.

I always liked Elizabeth Bennet...

Oh yes Bathsheba is fabulous

Oh and Lara from Dr Zhivago.

I love Karou from the same book op! Also loving a Hunger Games name, but it's Primrose rather than Katniss. Wouldn't use Karou, but considering Primrose!

Hester

My dd has literary first and middle names and would loe to continue the trend with any further dds. Not brave enough to use Katniss though.

Minerva?

Lyra - His Dark Materials
Susan - Discworld
Alanna - Song of the Lioness

Rowena, from Ivanhoe (although Rebecca of York is a better character).

My friend has an Ayla after the book :)

And Heloise, from Heloise and Abelard.

Iseult/Isolde.

Hero.

Clarissa.

Love Isolde!

I like flower names, a friend of mine has named her dd Aster, lovely :)

Never liked the name Rowena, I know someone who changed he name from Emilia to Rowena. Never saw the point

Sorry

I love the name Hermione. I really do. Being a Bowie fan, I wanted Hermione Jean. Slightly obscure... surely not enough to get a dd teased for the reference.

Rowling fucked that one up for me.

Titty
Hollie Golightly

Hollie Golightly is a fab name.

Thinking about it there are a few RL names that would make great book names. DS has a friend called Jack Fox I always thought that that name would fit a detective.

MissPryde its funny that she had the opposite effect on the name Harry? I love Hermione too but I don't think I would use it for the same reason you state.