Interesting names from books

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From a book I’ve just finished:

Bright (!!!)
Swan (!!!!!!!)
Cashman
Ayers
Granger

Want to add any other crazy names from books that might inspire someone?

Not crazy, but a favourite of mine is Loveday Minette (from The Little White Horse)

I love Loveday!

I love Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird

@pigglepot

I love Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird

Came on to say this

Zuleika from Zuleika Dobson, would never have used it for a child but did have a cat named this

I’ve just seen Garyanne mentioned on another name thread

Huckleberry

Tate, from ‘ How the Crawdads Sing’, unusual rather than interesting, but I’ve definitely seen an increase in it being mentioned on Baby name boards since that book became popular.

Clay and Clayboy from ‘Spencer’s Mountain’, which The Waltons tv series was based on (and names changed to John and Johnboy)

@LittleRa sadly my DH isn't keen for our bump!

Esmeralda

Fevvers my favourite character ever. From Nights at the Circus Angela Carter.

I used to adore the name Alanna from the Lioness Quartet.

Ah I love all these. Authors definitely use the names they weren’t brave enough to use for their kids 😄

I BAWLED my way through Where The Crawdads Sing. Kaia is quite an unusual one too!!

Also from the book in my OP..... Bart, whose nephew is Bart...... think Elin Hilderbrand might have been watching too much Simpsons 😂

*whose nephew is Homer

Toseland from Children of Greene Knowe. I would have loved to have used it but I could see DH’s face 🤣

@DelurkingAJ I'm always very tempted by Linnet! Just a shame it's so easily mistaken for Lynette which I dislike.

I like Emerence (chalet school) too.

Bathsheba and Gabriel.
Clym, Diggory, Thomasina and Eustacia.

Abra, from Doctor Sleep. I think it sounds lovely but surely if you used it in real life she’d just get called Abra-Cadabra!

Also not exactly classic literature but I remember reading a Point Horror book when I was about 12, about a girl called Devnee, I thought it sounded like the most glamorous name ever

@skeggycaggy

I used to adore the name Alanna from the Lioness Quartet.

@skeggycaggy My absolute favourite books! I always liked Thayet.

Pelagia and Lemoni from Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Would’ve loved to have used them but we are too pasty and Irish 😂

Another vote for Linnet. Same as pp, it’s just the similarity to Lynette that stopped this being dd’s name. It would have really suited her actually.

I also always loved Cairn from Duncton Wood. But that’s a bit like Ken...

I always loved Eppie since I read Silas Mariner as a teenager . DH was having none of it but I don't thinks it's too out there...

FrankChurchillsHaircut I second Bathsheba, sounds a bit wanton but biblical as well.

I recall a hero from a very trashy Mills and Boon type of book I read in my teens. Zoltan Szabo.