If you named children after characters, which names would you choose?

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Recently I met a family who had named their children after Superheroes, not things like Iron Man, Hulk smash but more Tony & Bruce. They went into great detail about how much love they had for superheroes and why each child got their names, some named after more than one character.

I know name inspiration can come from anywhere but I always felt I couldn’t name a child after a tv/move or book character. I couldn’t handle the name association.

But it got me thinking, if I was to name my children after characters what would I choose. There’s only one movie/book I can think of that I’d choose more than one name. Top of the list would be Soda Pop! But I’d also be happy with Pony Boy, Darry (Darryl), Dallas, Johnny and even Two-Bit, I’d love having a little brood of Greasers running around 😂

In the end I’m surprised how easy I’d find it finding names of characters I’d choose. My list

Boys
Soda Pop - The Outsiders
Tony - Stark, Soprano, DiNooza
Han - Star Wars
Tommy - Peaky Blinders
Brian - Taken

Girls
Missy - Young Sheldon, Dr Who and if my DD had a say Missy Booth from Ackley Bridge.
Nancy - Stranger Things and A Nightmare on Elm Street, love both characters.
Minerva - Harry Potter
Jane - Miss Marple
Lenore - I’d say it was from Edgar Allen Poes The Raven or from Taken but I just love the name but could never use it due to the fabric softener, but if I could pass it off as a character name..

What character names would you choose?

I suppose my names after characters I'd consider:

Marion - after Marion Halcombe in The Woman in White
Yvaine - after Yvaine in the film and book 'Stardust'

Can't think of any boy ones

I like Dana after Dana Scully

I thought it would be but wasn't sure if it was your DD or the character who was born on the island.
As long as your surname isn't Priestley.

Love this

Leela. From Futurama. Also, Kiki, from Kiki Delivery service.

Theres a character in one of my favourite books series called Callie and I always liked it and the association with the books but I don’t think I’d ever use it.

Also really like the name Primrose which I suppose could be linked to the Hunger Games

I watched the Alien films when I was pregnant and hormones almost made me call my daughter Ripley. Thankfully I did not.

Both my daughters have literary first names - one after a character, one after an author - I loved the names.

I suspect dh would have loved to have called a daughter Éowyn (from LOTR.)

Rilla, after Rilla Blythe.
In the real world a colleague has a dog called Mr Bingly. Like the character in Pride and Prejudice he is handsome but not that bright ...

My daughters names all came from Little Women. It was my favourite book growing up, and thankfully DH was happy to go along with it.

Very few people have made the association, however, apart from their teachers!

We have an Arya first heard it in the movie Eragon when DH and I first met around 2005/2006ish. Werent thinking of kids back then at all but both said “ohh nice name” then she was born in GoT times so it was clearly a sign for us 😅 we live in a non english speaking country, so its very uncommon here.

I LOVE reading and books but my nerd friends do this with the weirder names (sorry!).. eg Katniss wtf?!

Having said that, I like Scout and Liesel for girls

What a great question.

Friends named their first child after a character in a fantasy fiction series, I was the only person who got the reference, everyone else was baffled!

I like Raven (Edgar Allen Poe), but perhaps more as a middle name.