Literary boy names - more unusual ?

[AlexandraCamden]

Looking for unusual boys names with literary connection.

Ulysses
Geronimo
Hercule
Sherlock
Frodo
Bilbo
Emil
Fagin
Phileas
Gatsby
Forrest
Uriah

Theodore Laurie from Little Women... you could then use the nick name teddy

I think it’s a shame that the fabric softener Lenor has sort of ruined the name Lenore. When I read The Raven I thought it was such a beautiful name.

Edited to add my head isn’t screwed on properly as you asked for boys’ names!

I went to uni with a boy called Dickon, after a character in The Secret Garden. It somehow suited him, and he was very cool. But I think it might be quite a cruel name to give a child now, unfortunately.

Dickon - from The Secret Garden

Abraham (Bram)
Silas (Marner)
Tristan
Bedivere
Lancelot
Mordred
Pellinor
Beowulf
Bramwell (Brontë)

I went to uni with a boy called Dickon, after a character in The Secret Garden. It somehow suited him, and he was very cool. But I think it might be quite a cruel name to give a child now, unfortunately.

I don't think Dickon/Dick is any different to William/Willi from a teasing potential.

Branwell (Bronte)

Jolyon (from Hound of The Baskervilles)

Linton (Wuthering Heights)

Roald (Dahl)

Hamnet (Shakespeare)

Angelo
Aslan
Dante
Ishmael
Julius
Orlando
Silas

Cumberland - in memory of the sadly-forgotten poet Cumberland Clark

It's a cool name but I think any name beginning with "Cum" is probably a bad idea in this day and age.

Shakespeare's plays might be a good source of inspiration?

Yes, you're right. I was being flippant - the OP did a one sentence post (with grammar errors, even though she wanted "literary" names, but that's not what annoyed me) and then never came back to say thanks or comment on the responses. Not that she has to, of course, but people have made the effort to engage. Anyway, here's a better offering:

• Atticus - From To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Austen - With a different spelling than usual—for Jane Austen.
• Bastian - Before The Neverending Story was a retro film fave it was a novel that featured this character.
• Bram - Dracula author Bram Stoker.
• Conan - The middle name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Alan had me laughing

Some poor sod got saddled with Aragorn.

He's probably a middle-aged accountant at a mattress factory somewhere outside Doncaster right now.

How about Hannibal?

That’s not uncommon - I know three!

I've met a couple of Arwens. They've all been decidedly un-elvish

😁

I only know dogs!

Connell

Hottest literary crush of recent years

Ted (Hughes)
Dylan (Thomas)
Gabriel (Oak)
Jude (the Obscure)
Tristan (and Isolde)

Endeavour..

Barnaby (Rudge)
Caleb (Middlemarch/East of Eden)
Jay (Gatsby)
Winston (1984)
Fitzwilliam (Darcy)
Holden (Caulfield)
Laurie (Little Women)
Jude (the Obscure)
Orlando

Oh and Dorian (Grey)

Rupert
Jake
Billy
Lysander
Cosmo
Roberto
Basil
Declan
Marcus
(This should be a pub quiz question. Where are these literary names from? And YES they jilly well are literary.)

Austen
Dylan
Dill
Dickon
Frank
Oliver
Orwell
Huxley
Branwell
Rhett
Mitchell
Eliot
Chester
Heath

OP and others - a fancy 'literary' name does not a great writer make. The two are not connected. Simple classical names suit absolutely anyone:

William Wordsworth
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Robert Burns
Charles Dickens
Samuel Taylor Colderidge
John Keats
Thomas Stearns Eliot
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Butler Yeats
James Joyce
Alexander Pope

perhaps just a little bit beyond the bounds:
Oscar Wilde
Seamus (= James in English) Heaney
Edmund Spenser
Geoffrey Chaucer
Walter Scott

etc etc etc

Tate - Where the Crawdads Sing
Tempest - Blue Moon Investigations - Steve Higgs
Roderigo - Henry IV - Shakespeare