If you had to name a child after a favourite book character....

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....what would their name be?

Try and be decisive, no more than 2 suggestions per sex!

For me:
Boy: Gilbert or Laurie
Girl: Ginny

An easy one for me to answer!

I would choose Rosanna because I have always loved the book "Rosanna of the Amish". It's a true story of a baby who is brought up by an Amish woman after her mother dies. Her father is able to look after her older brothers but doesn't feel able to bring up a baby girl. It's an amazing story and there are so many details of the Amish lifestyle which I find fascinating

It's an amazing coincidence but during lockdown, when I was unable to go to church, I started watching services on YouTube from an Amish-Mennonite church in Kansas. After a while, I discovered that some ancestors of Rosanna attended that church

I think Rosanna is a beautiful name which I came to love because of this book

Heidi for me- the book was my reading prize in school when I was 8 and I still have it 58 years later! I loved that book! Always wanted to use the name but I had 2 boys and I don’t think either of them would have thanked me for it😡

I loved Heidi too . . .

Did you name either of your sons Peter?!

Lucy (Pevensies)

Sebastian
Heidi

Mina from Stokers’ Dracula. I don’t love the book but I like the name. But it wouldn’t work with my name which is Nina.

Pinocchio

I was at junior school with a Heidi, the only one Ive ever known.
Heidi is German Adelheid, or we would say, Adelaide.

I would have chosen Adelaide but baby was a boy.

If it's a children's book and it's a girl, I guess Nicola or Petrova.

Snap!

Pippi

Pollyanna 😁

Fern

Laura, Anne or Charlotte, I think, after Ingalls, Shirley or the spider. I read each of them so often they were real to me.

Oh, or maybe Scout.

Heidi for me as well, especially as I grew up in Switzerland. Second place, Nancy after Nancy Drew.

Boys, Danny from Danny the Champion of the World. And possibly Edmund from the Chronicles of Narnia.

Lyra (Belacqua/Silvertongue - His Dark Materials trilogy)

Mog and Bernard

Cruella, Gollum & Gandalf

Pooh

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Alanna (from the song of lioness series)
Nancy (from Swallows and Amazons)

Edmund (Narnia)
Liam (from the song of lioness series)

Roberta (Bobby) or Sara (Crewe) - Sara from A Little Princess.

Noddy, (but probably not Big Ears)

Scout

Loveday Minette from The Little White Horse.

I'd love to have been called that.