How do people feel about "fiction" names?

[BeingATinselTwatItsABingThing]

So someone I know has just named her son after a character from Lord of the Rings. It's not a name I have ever heard used elsewhere and I know she loves LOTR a lot.

I think the name is quite nice but I'm just not sure how I feel about naming a child obviously after a character from a book/film. There have been names I have liked but wouldn't use because I think people would immediately know its from a book/film and think I am a nutter.

What do you all think?

I'm named after the heroine of Wuthering Heights...

Pippin for Peregrine is lovely. I thought it was going to be Elrond or Gandalf or something else that sounded made-up.

Yes, Peregrine is a real name. How about Peregrine Worsthorne, the journalist? It's not associated with a book to me, but I think it's fine if it was. People are calling their children Arya (Game of Thrones) and Lyra (Northern Lights) these days, and I think that's fine, too.

I know someone who named their son Castle...

I'd have loved to call my children after Garth Nix characters, like Lirael and Sabriel, settled with Harry Potter names instead

I know it's none of my business. I'm not judging her for using it. I like it and as I said, I had some names that I liked but dismissed, thinking people would think them weird.

I just wanted to hear some other opinions on it.

Peregrine is an old name, it's quite well used too. I wouldn't associate it with LOTR.

Pippin (with Peregrine for when he grows up) is a gorgeous name, I wouldn't really associate it with LOTR, even if that's why they chose it. Its not really that different from any other moderately uncommon name that a person happens to like because of a book or a famous person.

If I'd had a boy I'd have wanted to name him Kester for the Georgette Heyer hero or Kit for Christopher Marlowe (whether DH would have agreed is another matter ).

Please tell me your daughter is called Deadpool. Parenting done RIGHT.

(Harley? Diana?)

No Deadpool is a guy! We called her Negasonic Teenage Warhead of course! She's actually called Harley but there is a whole backstory behind her birth conception around Deadpool which means we almost called her Vanessa

OP I love peregrine and pippin I fear I may be a novel obsessive! Though with the new movie out people may think of ms peregrines home for peculiar children.

only Rohan is from LOTR

Actually Rohan is an Irish name (from Rowan I think), a name in India, and a region in France, so there were Dukes Rohan all over the place in France (leading to various houses, chapels etc. being named after them in Europe too). So even that is not original to LOTR!

I know someone who has named his daughter Eden Rayne surname

He is a big buffy fanatic...and one of the characters is Ethan Rayne

Now I'm sure it's just a coincidence but somehow I don't think it is. Whilst I know him, I don't know him that well to ask in case he didn't realise and hated the Ethan character

Deadpool is a guy!

I would still have called my daughter Deadpool

Negasonic would be a close second

I do love Harley, it was on our list for DD. I wonder if it will have a surge in popularity now?

HoHo

Course it will. Boys and girls

I think you are getting your knickers in a twist about nothing. It's a very old name - I think it was Roman originally. It's not from LoTR, and it's a very nice name! I thought you were going to say they'd named the kid Gollum or something....

I give you THEON. No joke.

BeingATinselTwatItsABingThing Wed 21-Dec-16 20:22:12
The name is Peregrine (NN Pippin).

Peregrine actually a name it means wanderer quite a smart name really .Quite a good choice

i think naming after a character fine as long as its not something silly .

I know a little Peregrine, I'm not sure if he was named after LOTR or the falcon though.

Pippin is a cute nickname. DH knew a Perry, so that's another nickname.

I always loved the name Théoden from LOTR. If DH could actually say th it would have been a serious contender.

My eldests name comes from Star Trek, my youngest from my favourite book from my childhood.

I'm all for variety in names.

The Duke of Devonshire's given name is Peregrine, if anyone gives you stick about it

I vetoed XH giving DD the middle name Armidala. I have a cousin called Adric, named after a character in Doctor Who, and always felt sorry for him.

Genevieve is a film about a vintage car...

Genevieve is a saint, in fact the patron saint of Paris.

Names taken from literature have a long history. Poets and playwrights in the late 17th century and the 18th century made up names and revived others that had been forgotten. These names then went on to be used by the general populace, Amanda and Celia being two of them.

There are some moderate fantasy names, and then there are ... some that are extremely challenging that I wouldn't recommend. I would definitely think twice about such a name, though if it is something within reason, why not?

I rather like names that people choose because some sort of literature has really meant something to them. I know children called Atticus, Scout and Jem from To Kill a Mockingbird (not all in the same family...), a Lyra from His Dark Materials and a Holden from Catcher in the Rye. But I suppose they aren't 'out there' names.

Peregrine is a real name.

I really liked it when I was pregnant (with DD). And DH has a male relative called Peregrine, so I thought it would be nice to use a family name.

It depends on the name. Names like Gandalf, Anakin or Eragon? Maybe not.

Ronald, Araminta, Trillian and Briseis? Why not...

Or wait... do you mean actually made up names...?

Well, there are imo quite a few really nice ones.