Names from Books

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

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

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Well, I got the name out of a movie, but...it was originally in a book, so I guess that counts?

Sayuri

I think it's a very pretty name, but I'd never use it because it just seems to cultural for me to ever get away with using it.

[jesus--suburbia.livejournal.com]

I really like Cormac (McCarthy?).
My favorites:
Celia (As You Like It)
Cordelia (King Lear)
Holden (Catcher in the Rye)
Imogen (Cymbeline)
Kate (Taming of the Shrew)
Olivia (Twelfth Night)

[missmaxattax.livejournal.com]

Ohh fun...

Holden
Atticus
Amory
Miles
Turing
Cilla
Abigail
Stacey
Logan
Shannon

[oni85.livejournal.com]

i love cormac omg!!! Harper and Gage are GREAT

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Nothing as impressive as McCarthy...I grew to love Cormac as a character in the Kitty Norvile series.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

James
Corran
Kieran
Jack
Andrew
Luke

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Stacey, Logan, Shannon..... BSC?

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I like...
Astrid (White Oleander)
Blue (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
Dolores (Lolita)
Holden (Catcher in the Rye)
Carmel (The Woman Who Walked Into Doors)
Sadie & Tamsin (My Summer of Love)
And when it comes to Shakespearean names, I like Ariel & Ophelia.
♥

[missmaxattax.livejournal.com]

YES! haha.. *blush*

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't blush, I LOVED those books.

In fact, if I had been thinking I would have remembered..... *I* fell in love with the name Logan because of those books!

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I love Harper and Cormac.

From books (I have SOME 'literature' on here, too, though)
Marcus (Sloppy Firsts et al. by Megan McCafferty)
Bridget (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares)
Taylor (Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver made me start liking it for a girl... :[)
Lena (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares)
Phineas (A Separate Peace by John Knowles)
Huck (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)
Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)
Harry (Harry Potter)
Cedric (Harry Potter)
Ginny (Harry Potter)

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

The only name I've actually started liking only because I read it in a book (I hadn't seen it before, and decided I really liked it) is Norah. There are other names that I liked in any case, but which books reinforced my good opinion of, like Jane and Margaret.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

I pick names I like out of Harlequin novels, but because I can read one in a couple hours, I don't really associate it with the character once I'm done with the book. But a lot of my favorites have been drawn to my attention through them--the authors often seem to choose "normal" but unusual names, which I like. Of course, there are an awful lot of Kates and Mikes in them, too, so it just depends.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

Names I got from books:
Caspian - Narnia
Jane - Jane Eyre
Nathaniel - I can't remember what they're called. The first one's The Amulet of ...Somewhere
Julian - Famous Five Books :D
Sirius - HP

I'm sure there's more, but that's off the top of my head!

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

And reading the rest of the comments:
Logan - BSC
Juliet, Leander & Lysander from Shakespear!

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

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)