Useable names from literature

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Which name would you use if you could only choose a name based on a literary connection?

One boy, one girl.

Ill go first

Boy - Lawrence /Laurie from Little Women
Girl - Alice in wonderland

Like Hermione but I am a massive HP fan and its very very linked.

I also really like Matilda but worry about alliteration as dds name also starts with an M.

I'd have Laurie (Little Women)as well but would use Theodore (Teddy)
or Sam (LOTR)

Lyra (HDM) and Anna (Karenina) already said so going with
Anouk (Chocolat) or Elsa (Born Free)

Oh Shadylane how lovely. I would totally love a Heath. I suggested it again and again when pg with ds (Leo) but dh said no every time. Then my mum said it would be known as Heaf round here (cockney London) and then dh really wouldn't waver but I still love it and think it's brilliant. My friend at school had a dishy older brother called Heath...

I just googled him. Not seen him for 15 years but still dishy!

Thank you for that link AllMimsy - yum!

Nearly had a Laurence after Laurie Lee but. Friend beat me to it.

Holden and Matilda

I used Laurie for my DS (so pleased I was able to as Little Women is my favourite ever childhood book and I can think of it every time I say his name )

I love Lorna (Doone) for a girl

Minty82, Brother of the More Famous Jack is one of my all time favourite books - I've lost count of the number of times that I've read it.

My DDs are named after literary characters: Elizabeth (P&P), Eleanor (The Warden and Barchester Towers).

If I was going to name a child now, I would choose Caleb - after Caleb Garth in Middlemarch and, maybe, Harriet (Emma and Lord Peter Wimsey novels).

I would have loved a Heathcliff, but even if DD had been a boy our surname begins with H and doesn't go with 'H' first names .

Not sure Snoopy counts as literature but also love Linus.

Girls names would be Tess or Charlotte (Lottie).

Arwen - LOTR.

I have a Jem (from To Kill a Mockingbird). I once met a pregnant mum at babygroup who already had a Scout and was thinking of naming her unborn baby Jem.

Cordelia (Anne of Green Gables) "Will you please call me Cordelia?" she said eagerly.

"Call you Cordelia? Is that your name?"

"No-o-o, it's not exactly my name, but I would love to be called Cordelia. It's such a perfectly elegant name."

DS Langston after Langston Hughes (Stan for short)

Marianne - Sense & Sensibility

We chose this for Dd!

For a hypothetical ds, I love Jude (Jude the Obscure).

Lots of lovely names on this thread.

Ooh, ginzillas, I'd forgotten about Marianne - it's a lovely name.

I like Jude, too.
Even though I really disliked Jude the Obscure - the most depressing book ever apart from Tess.

I have a Max, heavily influenced by Where The Wild Things are!

Girl would be Alice.

Can I just suggest Tryphena, a Hardy connection.

Scout - To Kill a Mockingbird.

Jem - Jamaica Inn, Daphne Du Maurier

Love Jem, but DP thinks it would be too girly. :(

I have a Scarlett!

I also love Tess. Great name.

For a boy, Magnus or Edwin. (From Pickwick Papers and The Mysterious Case of Edwin Drood, respectively)

I was sorely tempted by Yorick for a boy, but sanity prevailed.

Charles (Mr Bingley Pride and prejudice)

Phoebe (Jd Salingers The Cathcer in the rye) - dd1 is named after this book.