Literary boy names - more unusual ?

[AlexandraCamden]

Looking for unusual boys names with literary connection.

Byron
Endeavour
Evelyn
Jago
Clive

Kingsley
Auberon
Kester
Taliesin

Rudyard
Conan
Aldous

Aramis
Lysander
Falcon
Emrys
Heathcliff
Walker

Think we need more information about what books you like? And what types of names you like. Books and therefore names that are meaningful to me probably aren’t to you!

Caspian
Endymion
Arthur
Gawain
Gareth
Florian
Dorian
Oberon
Amaury
Jolyon
Julian
Laurant
Lorien
Remy
Cedric
Hamelin
Maximilian
Beowulf

For me literary name means classical and specifically from literature (meaning unusual or invented or famous because it)

Huckleberry
Albus
Draco
Atticus
Alan
Charles
Dorian
Gulliver
Heathcliff
Jude
Phineas

Aslan not Alan

Willoughby

Fitzwilliam

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Judas

Atticus. That's the name of the lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Cormoran

Conrad

Holden

Quentin (Blake, the illustrator)

I wouldn't call these unusual

Cumberland - in memory of the sadly-forgotten poet Cumberland Clark who immortalised Bournemouth with his masterpieces eg.

"‘For many years I’ve held a brief
For Bournemouth’s Golden Sands
Indeed A1 in my belief
Are Bournemouth’s Golden Sands
You lie on your back from ten till one,
And get well baked by the genial sun;
And then turn over when you’re done
On Bournemouth’s Golden Sands.’"

or the slightly more saucy

"‘The Canford Cliffs Hotel will do you very well.
I’ve met girls when I’ve stayed there,
and in love I always fell.
At the Branksome Tower a minx
once took me on the links:
She played with me, and holed in three,
and let me in for drinks.’"

http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2014/01/dorsets-mcgonagall-cumberland-clark/

Osbert
Bede
Sacheverell
Trajan
Somerset

Kester from precious bane
Tertius from middlemarch
Silas from Silas Marner
Caspian from Narnia
Avery or Wilbur from Charlotte's Web
Elmer or Wilbur from Elmer the elephant
Lear from King Lear
Julius from Julius Caesar (obviously also real)
Lysander from a Midsummer night's dream

Bottom

Huxley
Neville
Merlin
Gideon
Felix
Uriah
Abel
Roderick
Ichabod
Romeo
Caspian

Macbeth
Scout
Huckleberry

Well, what have you read? No point in suggesting names if you haven't a clue who they are and what they're from. Hindley? Heathcliff? Both sweet, characterful, well-adjusted men.

Dervish