Favorite names from Novels

jgengo0

Just for fun, what are some of your favorites you have read in Novels?

here are just a couple of mine that have always stood out to me

Gone With the Wind

• Letti Monroe (one of the Tarlton brothers girlfriends)
  
• Eugenia Victoria (what Scarlett originally wanted to name Bonnie)  
• Wade (Scarlett's son)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Eliza
• Evangeline
  
• Augustine
• Ophelia
• Emmeline

Harry Potter

• Fleur
• Rowena
• Alastor
  

jgengo0

Joy2611 said:

I need to think about this, but I want to jump up and down and then hug you for not mentioning the same old names from the name old books (Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, for example).  Yours are different and interesting.  Gone With the Wind was so amazing and you didn't even go for Scarlett - you went for other characters.  Love it.  (And you siggy picture, by the way!  And your daughter's name!!!)

Since I'm now thinking about Gone With the Wind, I've always loved India.

Thank you very much! I can't belive I forgot India! That is definitely a favorite as well

slukd79

I have a million! But here is my starting point:
Anne of Green Gables: Anne, Cordelia
The Paris Wife: Hadley
Jane Eyre: Jane
Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth
Great Expectations: Pip (no I would never use it, but love Pip!)
Mansfield Park: Fanny
Gone With the Wind: Rhett, Scarlett

msronzio

I have two that are popular and peruse these boards quite often.

Holden, Catcher In the Rye

Atticus, To Kill A Mocking Bird

I also really love names stolen from authors (and 1 performer). 

Harper from Harper Lee

Auden from W. H. Auden

Eudora from Eudora Welty (love!)

Cormac from Cormac McCarthy

Catriona from Catriona Kelly

Isadora from Isadora Duncan

I don't like hard G names but for some reason I ADORE the following two.

Gulliver, Gulliver's Travels

Gustav, Death In Venice

Others;

Romeo, Romeo and Juliet

Piper, The Girl Who Could Fly

Portia, The Merchant of Venice

Amory, This Side of Paradise

Milo, The Phantom Tollbooth

Rhett, Gone With the Wind

jgengo0

Love these!

banannapeach85

I really like Alastor too.

Other HP names:

• Remus
• Hermione
• Rubeus

From Ivanhoe

• Brian
• Rebecca
• Maurice

And I love various mythological names too--Freya, Oenone (both of those are also names in a favorite sci fi series of mine) and Andromache. Hera is a lovely name but not a very inspiring goddess. And for the Irish ones, Fionnuala, Aoife and Deirdre. All those seem to be girl names, but I also love Arthur and Emrys from Arthurian legend. And I think Agravaine is just a really cool name too, also from Arthurian tales.

There are also a ton of names I love in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, with my favorite being Jorah, which is an actual Hebrew name meaning "early rain" and sounds very nice to boot.

lifeonthehill

I have to get in on this one! Most of these are more GP names than anything but I love them all the same. I could do this for DAYS!

Boys:

Finnick- The Hunger Games(I love the NN Finn)

Oskar- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Edmund-The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe

Simon-Lord of The Flies

Oliver- Oliver Twist

Cormac- Cormac Macarthy 

Orson- Orson Scott Card

Romeo- Romeo and Juliet

Ronald- Harry Potter

Elie- Elie Wiesel 

Girls:

Adele-Jane Eyre

Jane- Jane Eyre

Alice- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

Wendy- Peter Pan

Charlotte- Charlotte's Web

Rue- Hunger Games(would have to be a NN though)

Matilda-Matilda

Hanna- The Reader

Ann Marie- Number the Stars

Coraline- Coraline

Cecilia- The Virgin Suicide

Esme- Twilight

Harriett- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Marlena- Water for Elephants

Ophelia- Hamlet 

Also I am a sucker for Greek Mythology- Persephone, Hermes, Pandora, Athena, Orion, Ares, Hera, Hermes.

mh89

Faraday, Axis, Azhure - The Wayfarer Redemption

Hermione, Lily, Cedric, Luna, Orion, James, Alastor, Rowena, Andromeda, Minerva - HP

Arwen, Eowyn, Elanor, Rosie, Estel - LOTR

Ariadne, Artemis, Coel, Cornelia - The Troy Game

Arya, Eddard - Game of Thrones

Elizabeth, Jane, Charles, Katherine, Lydia, Caroline - Pride and Prejudice

Edmund, Lucy - Narnia

Lyra - The Golden Compass

Hazel, Augustus - The Fault in our Stars

Pepper6

Girls:

Claire - Outlander

Daenerys - Game of Thrones

Juliet - Romeo & Juliet

Boys:

Finnick - Hunger Games

Daegus & Drustan - Kiss of the Highlander/Dark Highlander

I also love the lesser known god/goddess names of Greek & Norse mythology.  Some of my favs that have been used as character names in other books are Sjofin (Norse) and Circe (Greek).  

oneblessedmess

I absolutely love the name Ginevra, NN Ginny (From Harry Potter) and it's strange because it's not my usual style of name at all, but there's no way I could get DH to go for it.

Manderlin923

Gone with the Wind- India, Melanie
HP- Hermione, Luna, Fleur, Harry, George
P&P- Jane, Darcy (I like it as a fn)
Bridget Jones- Bridget
Beauty- Honor, Mercy
Mermaid- Margrethe
Twilight- Rosalie, Esme, Edward
Ballet Shoes- Posy, Pauline, Clara
The Little House Books- Caroline

Scarlett&Gatsby

I love the names in GWTW! This baby will be Scarlett; besides that obvious name from the book (and Rhett; I love Rhett), I like Beauregard, Melanie, Bonnie Blue, India...I remember liking more but I haven't read it since middle school. I also like Sonya from Crime and Punishment; Mick from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Holden and Atticus; Carmella from The Godfather; Cyrus and Alice from East of Eden.

homediva

I like Henry from The Time Traveller's Wife.

CarrieB.

I go to a lot of theater, so I have a lot of Shakespeare names that I like:
Celia, Viola, Rosalind, Juliet, Bianca, Portia and my favorite that I will never use bc it's a little too weird Perdita.

My number 1 name right now for this baby is Isobel which I found in The Night Circus.

TikiTurtle

mh89 said:

Faraday, Axis, Azhure - The Wayfarer Redemption

Hermione, Lily, Cedric, Luna, Orion, James, Alastor, Rowena, Andromeda, Minerva - HP

Arwen, Eowyn, Elanor, Rosie, Estel - LOTR

Ariadne, Artemis, Coel, Cornelia - The Troy Game

Arya, Eddard - Game of Thrones

Elizabeth, Jane, Charles, Katherine, Lydia, Caroline - Pride and Prejudice

Edmund, Lucy - Narnia

Lyra - The Golden Compass

Hazel, Augustus - The Fault in our Stars

I totally thought of Faraday, but could never inflict that name on a daughter after what the character went through.

mh89

TikiTurtle said:

mh89 said:

Faraday, Axis, Azhure - The Wayfarer Redemption

Hermione, Lily, Cedric, Luna, Orion, James, Alastor, Rowena, Andromeda, Minerva - HP

Arwen, Eowyn, Elanor, Rosie, Estel - LOTR

Ariadne, Artemis, Coel, Cornelia - The Troy Game

Arya, Eddard - Game of Thrones

Elizabeth, Jane, Charles, Katherine, Lydia, Caroline - Pride and Prejudice

Edmund, Lucy - Narnia

Lyra - The Golden Compass

Hazel, Augustus - The Fault in our Stars

I totally thought of Faraday, but could never inflict that name on a daughter after what the character went through.

Right! Faraday is one of my favorite names of all time, but Sara Douglass just tore her character apart and I could never use it on a real child now either. I've never been so angry at a fictional character as I was at Axis during Enchanter... I don't think I even finished the series because I was so furious about what happened to Faraday.

FakeFinn

The Secret Garden - Mary HP - Remus Twilight - Emmett, Esme The Murders in the Rue de Morgue - Auguste Hanna's Daughters - Anna, Hanna, Johanna The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Kalle, Gunnar

homershippo

lol. Everyones going with the classic names!

I love:

Boys:

Dageus (day-jis)

Cian (Key-en)

MacRieve

Gavrael (gave-re-al)

Girls:

Hermione

Jane

Isabella

Rosalie

NicoleAnne416

Outlander: Clare (if my cousin doesn't use it, it's on my list)
Audrey, Wait!: Audrey
HG: Rue, Katniss (not my style but I love the names)
TTW: Henry, Alba

I'm sure there are more, but I'm blank right now!

Soap1

We actually heard DS2's name for the first time in a Michael Crichton novel.  It was spelled Marek in Timeline (and actually may have been his last name now that I think of it), but we went with the English spelling

I also love Eowyn from LOTR :-S  but I'd never actually use it :P

TikiTurtle

mh89 said:

TikiTurtle said:

mh89 said:

Faraday, Axis, Azhure - The Wayfarer Redemption

Hermione, Lily, Cedric, Luna, Orion, James, Alastor, Rowena, Andromeda, Minerva - HP

Arwen, Eowyn, Elanor, Rosie, Estel - LOTR

Ariadne, Artemis, Coel, Cornelia - The Troy Game

Arya, Eddard - Game of Thrones

Elizabeth, Jane, Charles, Katherine, Lydia, Caroline - Pride and Prejudice

Edmund, Lucy - Narnia

Lyra - The Golden Compass

Hazel, Augustus - The Fault in our Stars

I totally thought of Faraday, but could never inflict that name on a daughter after what the character went through.

Right! Faraday is one of my favorite names of all time, but Sara Douglass just tore her character apart and I could never use it on a real child now either. I've never been so angry at a fictional character as I was at Axis during Enchanter... I don't think I even finished the series because I was so furious about what happened to Faraday.

Lol at being angry at Axis, he never stops being a duche! And yeah, things never really get any better for Faraday as the series goes on.

PinkyFloyd73

I really love a lot of Tolkien "names"- Arwen, Eowyn, Elessar, Feanor, Lorien, Lalaith Luthien, Theoden

Sometimes I think about sneaking in a secret GP middle name on a birth certificate. No one has to know...
:P

Soap1

PinkyFloyd73 said:

I really love a lot of Tolkien "names"- Arwen, Eowyn, Elessar, Feanor, Lorien, Lalaith Luthien, Theoden

Sometimes I think about sneaking in a secret GP middle name on a birth certificate. No one has to know...
:P

OMG ME TOO!  Let's do it!! 

mh89

PinkyFloyd73 said:

I really love a lot of Tolkien "names"- Arwen, Eowyn, Elessar, Feanor, Lorien, Lalaith Luthien, Theoden

Sometimes I think about sneaking in a secret GP middle name on a birth certificate. No one has to know...
:P

I'm planning to use Arwen as a first name for this dd. Had we picked a more "normal" first name, I wanted to use Hermione as a middle name. I'm all about guilty pleasure literary names.

queenbone

Bernadette- Circle of Friends
Georgiana- Pride & Prejudice
India- Gone With The Wind
An-Mei, Waverly - Joy Luck Club
Lucy- A Room With A View

Malachy- Angela's Ashes
Phineas- A Separate Peace
Sydney- A Tale of Two Cities
Philip/Pip- Great Expectations

SixClams

Just had to reply to OP....our baby girl will be Emmeline; one of my husband's ancestors, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote uncle toms cabin so this was a great choice for us. :-)

peachiejean

Lux-Virgin Suicides