Names you have read in books

[Pollyputthekettleon1975]

...and grown to like!
It's happened with me a few times. where I have never really thought much of a particular name, then having read the name so many times in a book it has grown on me, and I really like it.

I've just finished reading a book with a character called Ottilie, and it's really grown on me.

Yup, if I have a girl I will call her Clara. I first heard that name in a book. There is a Pearl in the book I am currently reading and love that name, but my DH has veto'd it. I also love pearls so it would have been perfect but what can ya do!

Then there are the ones I wouldn't use like Katniss, but that is actually a pretty sounding name.

What book does Ottilie appear in, out of curiosity?
I've liked Alma a lot more since reading The History of Love.

Sephy (Persephone) in noughts and crosses
Luna in HP
Alice (Wonderland)
Atticus, Scout (TKAM)
Clover (what Katy did)

I remember reading Clean Break by Jacqueline Wilson when I was younger and there was a character in it called Vita. I've loved it ever since.

Names that have stuck with me from books:
Loveday - from Rosamund Pilcher
Posy and Petrova - Noel Streatfield, Ballet Shoes
Lala - Noel Streatfield again, White Boots
Lyra - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials
Scout - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Carrie - Laura Ingles Wilder, Little House on the Prairie
And, of course,
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy (Lynley Dodd).

Aveline from The Innocent by Posie Graham Evans.
Luna from Harry Potter.
Lyra from His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
Arya and Sansa from Game of Thrones.

Scout - tkamb

I'm actually going to use this :)

I called my daughter Esme after a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

Emma Jane Austen

I know a Kizzy - her mother loved The Diddakoi

Rumer is nice. I'd use Scout for a dog but not for a girl

@demoness

What book does Ottilie appear in, out of curiosity? I've liked Alma a lot more since reading The History of Love.

It's the name of a little girl in the book "No Child of Mine" by Susan Lewis.

I've only ever come across Amyas in a book, and am not terribkymsure how to pronounce it!

Also Malise

The best book name ever is Mealy Potatoes, from David Copperfield. Not one I would ever consider using in real life though!

Loved Lyra since reading his dark materials and just named dd2 Lyra 😊 also sephy from noughts and crosses and taryn from cruel prince

Pip - Great Expectations
Pandora - Adrian Mole
Hermione - Harry Potter
Lyra - Northern Lights
Elsie, Clover - What Katy Did
Atticus - To Kill a Mockingbird

Eleni

Another vote for Lyra and Arya

@Magenta82

I called my daughter Esme after a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

I called my DD Esme too but from a book I had read years ago!

I grew to love the name Miranda reading The Collector by John Fowles. I was ambivalent on the name when I started it but really warmed to it.

Aren't Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's girls called Scout and Rumer?

Scout is a nickname in To Killing A Mockingbird. The character is called Jean.

The names Mary and Jane really grew on me when reading a lot of historical and classic fiction. Previously I had dismissed them as boring.