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Your favourite names from children's literature

157 replies

MammieBear · 14/09/2017 12:51

As the title says really, looking for both Boy's and Girl's names.
Thankyou 😊

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JohnnyUtahsWetsuit · 14/09/2017 13:01

Lyra (His Dark Materials).

Mrsknackered · 14/09/2017 13:38

Off the top of my head!

Max - Where the wild things are
Soren - Charlie and Lola
Bellatrix, Reginald, Amos, Remus, Lily, Rose - Harry Potter.
Arwen - LOTR

Greenifer · 14/09/2017 13:48

Arrietty (from The Borrowers, girl's name)

SerfTerf · 14/09/2017 13:51
Smile

I came on to say Arrietty too.

SerfTerf · 14/09/2017 13:52

Also Matilda.

KitKatCHA · 14/09/2017 13:58

Corin, from the Chronicles of Narnia book 'A Horse and his Boy'

Mrsfrumble · 14/09/2017 14:00

Ha! I came on to say Arietty too!

bridgetreilly · 14/09/2017 14:10

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
Harriet (the Spy)

MammieBear · 14/09/2017 14:25

Some lovely names Arietty is very pretty, Max is Lovely too, I think it's harder for boy's names so I will be interested what comes up...

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oneboy3girls · 14/09/2017 14:30

Laura Mary Caroline.

moonlight1705 · 14/09/2017 14:33

Clover - from What Kay Did
Dory (short for Theodore) - WKD
Clara - Heidi
Dickon - The Secret Garden

CocoLoco87 · 14/09/2017 14:37

Gilbert (Blythe)

DiegoMadonna · 14/09/2017 14:37

Aslan

Greenifer · 14/09/2017 14:38

Arrietty is such a brilliant name. I half wish I'd used it! But I don't think I would have been brave enough.

Harriet the Spy was one of my favourite childhood books.

Chaffinch4 · 14/09/2017 14:38

Edmund, Peter (lion, witch & wardrobe)
Alice (in wonderland)
Ramona (Quimby)

ABCFamily · 14/09/2017 14:40

Alice (In Wonderland)
Edmund (The Narnia series)
Matthew (Anne of Green Gables)
Peter (Rabbit, Pan)
Ramona (Quimby)
Sara (A Little Princess)
Sophie (The BFG)
Thomas (The Tank Engine)

NoncommittalToSparkleMotion · 14/09/2017 14:41

Matilda
Oliver
Coraline- not sure I'd use it though.
Scout- again, not sure if I'd use it.

Holliewantstobehot · 14/09/2017 14:41

Sorrell from curtain up. Evadne, Emerence and Margot from chalet school. Santa from the circus is coming.

MaroonPencil · 14/09/2017 14:43

Linnet (Children of Green Knowe)

Sebastian (the Sadlers Wells books)
Tolly (Green Knowe - but I wouldn't use it alone and I have never been able to think of a longer version that isn't Ptolemy or Toseland, which is what his version was short for).

AGnu · 14/09/2017 14:44

Aranea (Charlotte's Web)

MaroonPencil · 14/09/2017 14:44

Oh, and Caspian, the eponymous Prince.

BertrandRussell · 14/09/2017 14:44

We have Banner and Cascade in our field........

MiddlingMum · 14/09/2017 14:46

Carlotta - from one of the Enid Blyton books.
Arietty - yet another vote Smile

SerfTerf · 14/09/2017 14:50

Green I just went looking for stats on the use of Arrietty and noticed that one of the babyname sites is suggesting it as a NN for Harriet. So potentially one could have both.

ladybirdsaredotty · 14/09/2017 15:01

I know someone whose daughter had Arrietty as a middle name!

Caspian is in our list for DS. Not sure if we're brave enough, though.

I love Scout, maybe as a middle name.

Love Lyra too, DP vetoed.

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