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

Moonface 🤣🤣🤣 not saucepan man?!

Jo and Laurie very much in the same book. Gilbert belongs with Anne and Diana!

Catherine ( Wuthering Heights)

Susannah from Susannah of the Yukon, or Clover from What Katy Did.
Dickon from the Secret Garden. Ok I probably wouldn’t use this but I’ve always liked it. Maybe Simon from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.

Lyra- I'm 40 and grew up reading Northern Lights etc. Still my favourite books of all time 💕

Gabriel (Oak)- I read a lot of classics in my late teens and early twenties. If I had a third son this would have been his name; it fits perfectly with my existing boys names.

Boy: Atticus or Harry
girl: Clover or Lyra

Demelza not because of Poldark but because I first read it there and fell I'm love with it.
Boy would be Conrad thanks to The Summer I turned Pretty. Both immediately vetoed

Jo (Little Women and the Chalet School books)
Natasha (War and Peace)

Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice)
Ewen / Ewan (Flight of the Heron and Sunset Song)

Another one for Clover

Favourite children's book would be
Nell or Howard
from My Friend Flicka

From the same book - I would’ve loved a girl called Scout and also loved Atticus for a boy but my DP didnt like it!

Atticus

Lorna (Lorna Doone)
Becky (Sharp- Vanity Fair)

Jay (Gatsby)
Sebastian (Flyte- Brideshead Revisited)

Girls:
Ronja (the robber's daughter, by Astrid Lindgren)
Akiko (young Samurai series, Chris Bradford)

Boys:
Cosmo (the Shadow Guests, Joan Aiken) Goacher (Astercote, Penelope Lively)

Scarlett of course (O'Hara from Gone with the Wind) - best female literary character in my view. I always wanted to be as strong and resilient as her.

Andrei (Bolkonsky from War and Peace) - my childhood crush.

Geillis (female/Outlander)

Snufkin

Quangle Wangle

I’m not sure either of mine would work.

When I was younger Titus and Fuchsia

Hagrid for a boy
Hagrida for a girl

Sherlock. I named a cat it, instead!

Or Marilla (Rilla). I love that name

I wanted Ross after reading the Poldark books.

I have so many literary characters on my list

Boys
Gilbert
Matthew
Oliver
Atticus
Pip
Will

Girls
Matilda
Lavender
Marilla
Ophelia
Perdita
Hermione
Ginny
Andromeda
Cordelia
Tess
Alice
Connie
Sally
Darrell
Lyra

Girl: Scout or Melanie

Boy: Harry (Not Potter) or Edward

I read a lot of fantasy books and those don't often make for good names for kids. Probably pets in the future though! (Even though my partner is boring and won't let me have a pair of cats called Glorfindel and Legolas. Humph)

My daughter is called Nell after My Friend Flicka. I had Carey (Green Grass of Wyoming) on the list too but was vetoed.

We named our daughter Heidi. I love it and it has a little nod to Germany which is special for me.