Names from Books

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An earlier post got me thinking of names I like from books. I know everyone has "literary" names they like, but lets not forget plain old books that haven't changed the face of literature:)

Off the top of my head -

Harper
Dresden
Ender
Curran
Cormac
Coraline
Morrow
Kisten
Gage
Chance

are all names I like that I originally found in books.

What about you?

Comments

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I've always been an avid reader, so I think the majority of my favorite names were influnced by literature. I have found a lot of names I especially love through the works of L.M. Montgomery. Between her numerous novels and volumes upon volumes of short stories, I have probably read more of her work than that of any other author. I've meant to go through and sort this out to test this theory in the past, but I've never done it. I guess I will now. This will probably be horribly long.

Andrew (Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card)
Annabel ("Annabel Lee," Edgar Allan Poe)
Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare)
Becca (despite the difference, Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier)
Belinda ("The Rape of the Lock," Alexander Pope)
Catherine (Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman)
Charlotte (author Charlotte Brontë)
Colin (The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Damaris ("The Son of His Mother," L.M. Montgomery)
Diana (Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery)
Edmund (Mansfield Park, Jane Austen)
Edward (Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen)
Emily (Emily of New Moon, L.M. Montgomery)
Emma (Emma, Jane Austen)
Estella (Great Expectations, Charles Dickens)
Fiona (The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway)
Fleur (Château of Flowers, by Margaret Rome)
Gabriel (Locked in Time, Lois Duncan)
Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery)
Hazel (Pat of Silver Bush, L.M. Montgomery)
Helen (Wait till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn)
Hilda (Magic for Marigold, L.M. Montgomery)
Ilse (Emily of New Moon, L.M. Montgomery)
Jane (author Jane Austen and Jane of Lantern Hill, L.M. Montgomery)
Jade (Emily of New Moon and Jane of Lantern Hill, L.M. Montgomery)
Kenneth (Rilla of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery)
Leander (Magic for Marigold, L.M. Montgomery)
Marianne (Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen)
Marigold (Magic for Marigold, L.M. Montgomery)
Maurice (author Maurice Sendak)
Nora (The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway)
Olivia (The Story Girl, L.M. Montgomery)
Ophelia (Hamlet, William Shakespeare)
Patricia (Pat of Silver Bush, L.M. Montgomery)
Persis (Anne's House of Dreams, L.M. Montgomery)
Philippa (Anne of the Island, L.M. Montgomery)
Reece (despite the change in spelling, The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman)
Rosalyn (The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway)
Ruby (Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery)
Sara (A Little Princess and Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's, Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Sylvia (author Sylvia Plath)
Tessa (despite the discrepency, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy)
Tilda (Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman)
Trilby (Trilby, George du Maurier)
Una (both the "OO-nuh" and "YU-nuh" pronunciations, Rainbow Valley, L.M. Montgomery)
Upton (author Upton Sinclair)
Uriah (David Copperfield, Charles Dickens)
Valancy (The Blue Castle, L.M. Montgomery)
Victoria (Jane of Lantern Hill, L.M. Montgomery)
Violet (despite the horrible character, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl)
Walter (Rilla of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery)
Xan (Children of Men, P.D. James)
Zadie (author Zadie Smith)
Zola (despite the sex difference, author Émile Zola)