Names from whatever you're reading

[SeanChailleach]

You have to name a child from the first five names in whatever publication you last read, book, magazine, newspaper, whatever. What are your options? I have:

Joe
Vladimir
Noah
Elizabeth
Valérie

@Greebosmum

Ridcully Ponder Magrat Diamanda Esme

😂 Another fairly niche group of names!

I checked from the start of the book I'm reading and was surprised to find (in order):
Edmund
Aleister
Dave
Joan
Leda

...I could make the book much more obvious by going with Cormoran, Leda, Robin, Margot, Dennis

[quote AltheaVesr1t]**@TheSpiral* is reading The Ninth House and @ApplePippa* the wonderful Assassin's Apprentice. 😄

No prizes for guessing what I'm reading. The first five names I can remember as Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf, Samwise and Hamfast. [/quote]
Indeed I am! Very glad I don't have to use any of those baby names for real though - not sure my DS would appreciate being called Burrich!

Tolkien is much better at names...

@AltheaVesr1t just taken proper note of your username!

Windle
Albert
Prissal
Mustrum
Modo

(I wasn't sure if Death is a name or more of a job description).

The film we watched last night:
Carol
Maria
Phil
Nick
Talos

[quote AltheaVesr1t]**@TheSpiral* is reading The Ninth House and @ApplePippa* the wonderful Assassin's Apprentice. 😄

No prizes for guessing what I'm reading. The first five names I can remember as Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf, Samwise and Hamfast. [/quote]
I am indeed and weirdly the Assassin's Apprentice is lying on my bedside table ready to be read next!

Aibileen
Mae Mobley
Miss Leefolt
Treelore
Frances

Luke
Jane
Matthew
Marietta
Charlie

Neil
Darya
Angus
Doris
Guy

Penelope
Cicely
Tissie
Barnabas
Ian
Alison
Francis
Anthony

Viques ...and Aunt Ada Doom!

Mine are really easy: Madeleine, Florence, Agatha and Dahlia

Hamnet - no!
Susanna - yes, pretty
Judith - possibly
John - meh
Agnes - yes, possibly

There are plenty more names further in but I guess it would be John or Susanna if I had to choose from the first 5

Looks like I'm not the only one reading this recently.

Bathsheba
Gabriel
Frank
Fanny
Liddy

Although I could be tempted by the very minor characters of Temperance and Soberness.

Connell and Marianne.
Niall
Lorraine
Gareth
Jamie
Rachel
Rob
Alan

@scottishnames

“On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps...”

Lolly
Saffron
Victor
Theo
Rose

Had to come back to add the first five from the book I'm on now - like others, an Elinor Brent-Dyer.

Philathea
Vida
Salathiel, known as Sally
(these three are sisters)
Dorcas, sometimes called Tabby
Dorinda

The first three are family names. "Philathea ... was very proud of her family history, and also of the three uncommon names of herself and her sisters. Not that she ever mentioned it; that was not done."

loveable qualities Indeed so!

philopoemen
alexanor
cleomenes
machanidas
aristaenos

@Hyperion - that old vegetarian biographer/moralist, perhaps?

(I cheated - I did look it up, but only to check . Once - even long ago, as a student - you've read a name like Philopoemen, you don't ever easily forget it!)

Robbie
Elizabeth
Nastya
Eze
Malcolm

David/Dave
Kurt
Krist
Taylor
Chris
Pat
Rami
Nate