Literary baby names?

[Bluesunday]

I was just wondering (because I'm bored and there's nowt on telly) if anyone here had given their LOs literary-inspired names? My LO-on-the-way is going to have the name of my favourite book-character as a middle name if it's a boy... I was watching Jonathon Ross last night and found out Russell Crowe's DS2 is called Tennyson... can anyone beat that?

According to Wikipedia here's a list of Alice's characters (in Adventures, not Looking Glass):

• Alice
• The White Rabbit
• The Mouse
• The Dodo
• The Lory
• The Eaglet
• The Duck
• Pat
• Bill the Lizard
• The Caterpillar
• The Frog Footman
• The Fish Footman
• The Duchess
• The Cook
• The Cheshire Cat
• The Hatter
• The March Hare
• The Dormouse
• The Queen of Hearts
• The Knave of Hearts
• The King of Hearts
• The Gryphon
• The Mock Turtle
• Pig Baby
• Alice's Sister
• Dinah (Alice's cat)

So realistically I've got a choice of Bill and - well - that's it. I would have gone with Alice with a girl, or maybe Dinah, as I def wanted the AAIW link.

I'll see what Wik says about Peter Pan now. Not sure how high literature this is - well Alice is, in its way, and in its importance as a nonsense and fantasy book, but PP may not be!

Oh this is Looking Glass's list. Not better!

• Alice
• Red Queen
• White Queen
• Red King
• White King
• Hatta
• Haigha
• Humpty Dumpty
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee
• The Walrus and the Carpenter

No, nothing there. Unless I can call a boy Tiger Lily .

I NEED HELP.

My mum's family include a Scarlett, Ashley and Melanie (all born in the 40s / 50s)

I think all the literary suggestions are fabulous names and it must be great for dcs to be able to read about someone they were named for. Dh and I have a name from Tolkein we want for a girl (don't know if bun in the oven is male or female yet) but I'm not going to say what. Like lots of you, I wanted Laurie (or rather Lawrence to be nicknamed Laurie) for a boy, although of course Lawrence was his surname, and his first name (I think) was Theodore. Anyway, dh has vetoed it so far. Compromise might be Edward, which I could call Teddy anyway (Jo's nn for Laurie)

We considered Lyra (from Pullman's Dark Materials) and might contemplate it again if we have a girl, although it'll be a toss-up between that and Yseult (as in Tristan and Yseult); both of which are literary-ish.

I'm allowed Yseult because we are in Cornwall and have a very Cornish surname so it won't sound too daft.

My friend is going to call her DD Matilda as it's the only book her DP has ever read!

BTW my name is from Punchbowl Midnight by Monica Edwards!

Have just had Atticus vetoed. Boo

I have a Caitlin named after a teenager in a Jilly Cooper

I have an Anna Cordelia after Anna Karenina and King Lear and an Edward Tristan. Wanted Edmund originally but thought he would be teased in my Dad's working men's club!

My DS is called Atticus. Best name ever!! Always wanted to name a boy that, and luckily DH also loves it.

Currently pregnant with No 2, a girl, and racking our brains for a girls name to go with Atticus.
Thinking of Ianthe , from a Percy Shelley poem.

Following missiemac's suggestion I'm seriously considering James! But known as Jamie to differentiate him from the other ones.

But as Alice and Peter Pan were really important books to me as a child, anyone have any ideas of similar types of books that could have some ideas?

Wizard of Oz comes to mind.. but I'm not naming my child "Toto" .

Carrots, what about Henry, after Dorothy's uncle?

My DD is Catherine, not specifically named after Catherine Earnshaw, but I think it's a good literary character to have as a namesake.

Blues My DD was called Billie (Holiday) and my DSs have Coltrane (John), Lennon (John), Marley (Bob), Hendrix (Jimi) in their (long) names. They have lots of other names too which are rocky sounding but not after anyone (apart from Cassius which is after Mr Clay).

If DC 5 was a girl she was going to be Tallulah - love that name.

derv there's a thought .

Although a more major character would be good (not that I'm fussy/greedy LOL)

I really like Bennet for a boy, after Elizabeth of course.

I'm named after a trgic Shakepearean heroine ("star-crossed" and all that).
Love it now, but every boyfriend I ever had was nicknamed after the heroine's equally star-crossed lover.....

DH wanted to call DD Mina after the character in Dracula, but I wasn't keen so his next suggestion was Vesper after Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (he's a big Ian Fleming fan).

It sounded too much like a scooter so that was vetoed as well .

Chegirl - your babies' names are amazing! I have a DS called Billy - I always wind him up he was named after Billie Holliday because I love her so much (evil mum). He was actually named after Shakespeare. LOVE Cassius - LOVE Anna Cordelia

IvaNighSpare - DD2 has your name, mostly because I thought it was beautiful, less because of the Shakespeare connection. I wanted DD1 to be Dorothea (Middlemarch), but it was vetoed by DH, probably quite sensibly.

viv but then I would have to beat him when he sneezes and that's a bit cruel.