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Literary boy names - more unusual ?

78 replies

AlexandraCamden · 23/10/2024 12:15

Looking for unusual boys names with literary connection.

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blindasaba51981 · 23/10/2024 18:18

Atticus
Dorian
Tate
Hugo
Jasper
Harper
Jude
Charles
Oscar
Augustus
Orlando
Asher
Byron
Calin
Conrad
Edgar
Ernest
Rhett

LikeTalkingToLassie · 23/10/2024 20:21

Dennis
Walter
Roger
Jonah
Aristotle
Percival
Cuthbert

Calliopespa · 23/10/2024 20:26

MerryMarys · 23/10/2024 15:51

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.

Well it is a bit : dick in

Calliopespa · 23/10/2024 20:30

Cassius
Caspian
Othello
Lysander
Benvolio
Lear

RedHelenB · 23/10/2024 21:03

AlexandraCamden · 23/10/2024 12:15

Looking for unusual boys names with literary connection.

Hareton

Newuser75 · 23/10/2024 21:05

Hemingway!

JadeChapman · 24/10/2024 02:42

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AutumnCrow · 24/10/2024 10:18

Edgar (Allan Poe)
Edwin (Drood)
Edmund (Pevensey)

Beansandneedles · 24/10/2024 10:29

Laurie (Little Women)
Rudy (the book thief)
Remus (Harry potter)
Danny (champion of the world)
Charlie (chocolate factory)
Atticus (to kill a mockingbird)
Quentin (Blake, illustrator)
Bran (game of thrones)
Spiller (the borrowers)
Gatsby (as in great)
Sawyer (tom!)
Artemis (Fowl)
Finnick (Hunger games)
Wilbur (Charlotte's web)

Calliopespa · 24/10/2024 11:09

Jay ( Gatsby)
Jude ( the obscure)
Orlando ( Woolf)
Holden ( Catcher)

Calliopespa · 24/10/2024 11:14

Ethan ( Frome)
Barnaby ( Rudge)

Calliopespa · 24/10/2024 11:14

Gulliver is actually quite cool 😎

Cattery · 24/10/2024 11:29

Zimunya · 23/10/2024 17:05

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.

Grammatical

Whichone2024 · 24/10/2024 11:39

Herman
Orwell
Conan
Woolf
Poe
Mellville
Seuss
Tolstoy
Edgar

Newsenmum · 24/10/2024 11:43

girls:
Bronte
Austen
Hermione

boys;
finch
draco
emmett
jasper

Newsenmum · 24/10/2024 11:43

The girl from Dracula is called Mina

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 24/10/2024 11:45

Red.

QuantumPanic · 24/10/2024 12:43

Bbq1 · 23/10/2024 16:14

Branwell (Bronte)

Jolyon (from Hound of The Baskervilles)

Linton (Wuthering Heights)

Roald (Dahl)

Hamnet (Shakespeare)

Linton is absolute scum. One of the most abhorrent and pathetic literary characters. No one should be named after him!!

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 24/10/2024 17:42

QuantumPanic · 24/10/2024 12:43

Linton is absolute scum. One of the most abhorrent and pathetic literary characters. No one should be named after him!!

There are quite a few utter shits on this thread. Although I am an admirer of his poetry it is astonishing to me that anyone could know almost anything of Ted Hughes’s life and consider him an appropriate namesake for their son!

LikeTalkingToLassie · 24/10/2024 19:42

@Zimunya , is that a reliable source?

Zimunya · 24/10/2024 20:41

There are others that say much the same thing.

LikeTalkingToLassie · 24/10/2024 20:47

Doesn't mean they are right.

Zimunya · 24/10/2024 21:04

Agreed. Always content to be corrected if I’m wrong. That’s why I checked. I’d also be happy to look at any info you have on the grammar / grammatical debate.

Askingforadvice78 · 24/10/2024 21:20

Ebenezer Scrooge. He did repent and turned generous.

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