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

@TheKittenswithMittens you're not alone with that one it would seem. Yet doesn't seem to be common on the playground!

Frances "A baby sister for..." and Harry "My naughty little sister and..."

That was when I was little. Later it was Bronia ("The Silver Sword") and Aragorn.

Lucy (Honeychurch Room With A View)
Or Dinah (The dog from Stig of the Dump)

I have these names for my kids, Emily and Blythe as well as a Jack as you can’t mess with the name, my DH wouldn’t anymore, I love the Anne of Green Gables book and film 🤗

Girl: Posy (from Ballet Shoes)
Boy: Indigo (from the Saffy’s Angel series)

EDIT: Sorry, I misread and thought we were talking about names from children’s books specifically.

Diana (Anne of Green Gables and Discovery of Witches)

Eliza (The Forgotten Garden)

Not sure about boys - maybe Tobias after Heidi's son...

Phoebe? Sally? Jane? Lil Shirley Beans?

I like the name Lottie from Phantom of the Opera.

Ashes of roses

I wanted the name Nicodemus, after Jackanory had Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

Stig....from Stig of the Dump.
Zebedee from The magic roundabout.
Brianna from Game of thrones.
Eve from the Bible.

Sorry, no! The PP confirmed that she named her daughter Meghan after The Thorn Birds

Phoebe. The coolest sister in the world according to Holden

Yes, I know. And Ashes of roses was the colour of the dress that Meggie wears to her first dance.
When Father Ralph “notices” her.

Posy, Harriet, Lydia, Sorrel, Anna, Laura, Gemma, Naomi

Marnie, from When Marnie was there. I loved this book so much as a child and managed to track down an original copy a few years ago.

Triplets: Milly, Molly, and Mandy.

Matilda and Edmund!

I do quite like the name Damaris, but any girls called that seem to be minor characters in passing in the books that I've read.

Oh, sorry. I thought you were referring to the book of that name . . .

No worries 😌
ETA: was there a book called Ashes of Roses?

I did. Owen. From A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Matilda of Matilda, or Sara of the Little Princess

Yes, it's an old book by Mary Jane Auch. Probably out of print now. . .

Oh wow! I had no idea!

I loved The Thorn Birds; great book and series.