Your favourite names from children's literature

[MammieBear]

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

@thecraddock Ariadne is a Lovely name, I'd forgotten about the water babies.

Loads of these!

Linnet from Green Knowe
Arrietty from the Borrowers
Benedict from Cynthia Harnett's "Load of Unicorn" or Cecile from the same author's "The Woolpack"
Edmund or Caspian from Narnia
Estel (Aragorn's childhood name in LOTR)
Meg (A wrinkle in time)

Bartholomew > Tolly

Footle ah, yes that is much nicer. I did reflect afterwards that at 7 I didn't have the desperate housewives connotation! Linnet is lovely. I can't wait to re-read that book to my DAD self

*DD not Dad. He wouldn't be interested!

Ps I have just remembered Aurora and Socrates, the latter always makes me chuckle. I have loved re-reading that book to my daughter. I think I would like her parents!

Kitty! I have never met anyone else who read those books. I loved them.
You didn't happen to also read Matthews Secret Surprises and Where Matthew Lives did you - nobody ever seems to have read them either.

I'm trying to remember Aurora's friends' names - Britt-Karen, Knut, and I think there was another girl.

Not really children's literature but I like some of the Hunger Games names, Katniss, Peeta, Gale, Hamish, Fenick and Effie.
I'd never be brave enough to use one but I think they are pretty cool names.

Clover from What Katy did. Not brave enough to use it though

And Emily from Emily of New Moon. Loved that book when i was little

Clover (What Katy Did)
Petrova (Ballet Shoes)
Marnie (When Marnie Was There)
Laurie (Little Women)
Kit (The Box of Delights)
Lyra (His Dark Materials)

@BertrandRussell from My Friend Flicka? I love the name Banner.

Dido from Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket. I devoured those books as a young girl and was devastated when DD was unimpressed with them.

Maroon it was Nusse! (Just dug my copy out to confirm that). I have also never met anyone else who has read it! I re-read it recently and thought it was so ahead of its time. I loved Father's amused nonchalance at everyone's disbelief that he could possibly look after his own kids.

I haven't read the others you mentioned but thank you because I googled and they look perfect for my DS so am going to buy!

Ilse from Emily of new Moon.

I have a Matthew (named after Matthew from AoGG). Clara (Heidi), Megan and Beth (Little Women) were on my girls list and Danny (the Champion of the World) was on my boy list. I will have to track down Where Matthew lives for my Matthew.

Clemency
Verity Ann
Robin
Loveday

All from the chalet school

Arietty
Ottoline
Mungo
Ottis
Harry
George

Fritha (The Snow Goose)
Tolly (The River at Green Knowe)
Hester (His Dark Materials)
Millicent (Milly Molly Mandy)
Pandora (Adrian Mole rather than the myth)
Robin (Robin Hood)
Tobias (Tim and the Hidden People)
Melinda (""""")
Sita (Reading scheme in infants)
Ramu ("""")
Ramona (Ramona Quimby)
Lucius (Harry Potter)

Some fantastic names have come up on your lists can anyone think of some heroic Boy names frome books?

Emil

Love Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Charlotte (C's web)

A friend has an Aslan (lion, Witch and the Wardrobe) - that is a strong male name

@chocolateavocado99 Aslan! Gorgeous name

Heidi