Obscure literary names

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Our dd is called Ayla after the main character from 'The Clan of the Cave Bear', which is extremely rare, but similar enough to names like Isla and Ava that it's not too hard for people to accept. Pronounced Ay-la.

We have dc2 coming any day now and our first mistake was not finding out the sex, so now we have to find both a male and female literary name.

I have a few I am attached to but my partner would prefer some more options. We are trying to avoid the more known names like those from Harry Potter books or classic literature, and instead go for names people likely won't have heard of.

Feel free to throw any suggestions this way!!

Silus

Rhett
Holden
Gatsby
Huckleberry
Linton
Hareton
Heathcliff
Tristam
Dorian
Ichabod
Atticus
Hester
Ramona
Cosette
Bathsheba
Jane
Bryony
Bronte
Calliope
Lux
Neena

I’m suggesting Jory for a boy and Audrina for a girl.

Leopoldina

Gilgamesh

Well, what do you read, though? Surely you’re not going to call your baby after a character in a book you haven’t read? Apart from it being a quite odd idea, you risk discovering they’re a necrophiliac or a Tory in the last chapter.

Julian? Fantastic five

Famous Five, I mean!

A vote for Ranec! I used to want a boy called Ranec after the character from the Mammoth Hunters.
Sabriel, Emma, Lorcan, Richard, Darcy, Sebastian...

Rosette - The Lollipop Shoes, I adore that name.
Congrats by the way 😁

I’m with Leland. Surely you should think of the books/characters you like.
A bit meaningless to chose a name from a book you’ve never read?!

And Julian in the Famous Five is a power-crazed wanker.

Blaming you enidblyton1

Momo from a children's book of the same name. The character is a girl but I think that name is kind of unisex

There's an Ayla in my son's class. It's not that unusual here.

Lyra is nice.

Tory reference how strange

Boy’s

Bevis - from Knight’s Fee, by Rosemary Sutcliff
Randal - also from Knight’s Fee

Rawdon
Steerpike
Eustace
Rilian
Uriah
Wackford
Iorek

@Leland 🤣

you risk discovering they’re a necrophiliac or a Tory in the last chapter 😂😂😂

Ayla isn't a Sophie or Olivia but it's not unusual? I know 3 little Ayla's and it was 128 in the rankings according to Names Dark Greener.

Anyway...that aside;

Julian (Famous Five)
Oakley (Goodnight Mister Tom)
Noddy
Hagrid (HP)
Ron (HP)
Aslan
Danny

Jemima (Beatrix Potter)
Hermione (HP)
Liesel (The Book Thief)
Pippi
Alice
Matilda
Maisie
Elmer

Holden
Clarissa
Ignatius
Hazel
Sula
Phoebe
Antonia
Ripley
Seymour
Claudine
Yuri
Alden
Augie

I agree, it would help tremendously to know what books you read. These names are all from literary masterpieces, some fans v s of mine. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, for instance.

Surely if you are going for a literary name, you should only pick a name from a book you have read and loved?

Painfully pretentious otherwise

Bathsheba

Hepzibah

Magnus
Nicodemus
Tolliver
Caspian
Emil

Araminta
Madge
Kitty
Minerva