WDYT?

[kimber-leigh.livejournal.com]

What are your thoughts on literary names??

Marlowe
Bronte
Hawthrone
Austen
Byron
Keats 
Lowell
Niccolo
Chaucer
Raleigh
Emerson
Thackeray
Irving
Tennyson
London

Can you think of any others that would be good names?

Comments

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

I love Thackeray and Salinger, although I'll likely never use them. I wish Sidney were still acceptable for use on boys. I'd use Spenser, except it would be misspelled all the time. Atwood and Eliot are on my list.

[fireyirishangel.livejournal.com]

I like London, but highly doubt my fiance would go for it.. or that I'd hear the end of it from friends and family.

[moldycelery.livejournal.com]

They're all surnames. The only one I could possibly like on someone is Raleigh. But that's about it.

[missmaxattax.livejournal.com]

I love almost all of them.
From that list... Raleigh and Emerson especially.
And I've always loved Elliott.. and it reminds me of Eliot.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Totally agree with this comment.

[quietlymanic.livejournal.com]

I adore Byron and I just named my iPod Em[m]erson. Austen, Irving, and Lowell I could see used on a person, but the others are too out there for me.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

My cousin's name is Bronte. I'm not crazy about it, I'm not going to lie. I think they should either be used as middle names, or you should just use the author's first name.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

Ponyboy is at the top of my list if it's a boy.

[catchstars.livejournal.com]

I like Auden as a name, too.

[mardelsol.livejournal.com]

Marlowe is a good name, it means something like "great sailor." I also like Emerson.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

As said above, they're all (but one) surnames - and most of them are also road names around here - and I can't stand surname-as-first-name, generally. Niccolo is a family name for me so I can't use it for that reason anyway (we don't duplicate living relatives) but I quite like it.

A friend's son has Tennyson as his middle name and I think that works quite well - he can acknowledge it or hide it as he sees fit, rather than being stuck with "yes, like the poet" all the time.

[fruhlings.livejournal.com]

YEATS HOLLA BACK YA'LL


Ahem.

Also, I would totally name my child after the man in my icon. just sayin'.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I've always really like Keats as a name, after the poet, although I don't think I've ever read any of his works :P

I'm not sure how/if it's literary, but I would like to suggest Neville :)

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

sorry I keep forgetting things!!

Niccolò is an italian name, and it's supposed to have an accent over the final -o, because it's read Neekk-ol-AW (but with a short AW sound, not actually awww :P)

[shortbutfast.livejournal.com]

Marlowe, Hawthorne, Byron and London are cool names.