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[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

Pretty much all my favorite names come from books. I fall in love with the characters, which leads to the names...

Matilda (Matilda by Roald Dahl)
Henry and Clare (The Timetraveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger)
Lilly and James (Harry Potter)
Dexter (Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (I think))
Charlotte and Avery (Charlotte's Web by E.B. White)
Ruby (Ruby the Copycat, my fav book when I was little and The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom)
Holden (The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger)
Harper, Scout, Atticus, Radley (To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee)
Tala (Also from Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet In Heaven)                                                                                                                            

That is just a few.

What are some of your favorites that were influenced by books/movies/tv?

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[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Is Lily Potter with one L or two?


- Juliet, Pauline (from history, and from the film Heavenly Creatures)
- Jack, Rose (Titanic)
- Ginny, Hermione, Luna (Harry Potter)
- Tracy (Hairspray)
- Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables)

I'm sure there are others!

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

heehee, I'm from Prince Edward Island, so Avonlea would be soo lame here. This year is the Year of Anne... there is going to be some crazy shit going on here...

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

LOL Yeah, I suppose it would be!

I've always wanted to see PEI, ever since I fell in love with Anne when I was about three years old.


Year of Anne?

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

Ya, I guess it is going to be a big deal. Two of my friends work at Green Gables and one of them was saying today that he wants to get a new job because it's going to be such a crazy summer.

Normally I'd say PEI is gorgeous and beautiful, but today it was -30*C, so I'm a little bitter...

but seriously, I don't think I could ever leave here, I love it.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Good Lord! That's cold.

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

Hmm, ya. I was walking to university and I was crying from the icy wind hitting my face and one of my eyes froze shut...

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

One L for Lily Potter :)

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

K, thought so. :)

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

ugh i love dexter and harper and holden for the same reasons, although i found dexter through the show before the book. great book as well, though.

i actually just bought the first season on dvd today.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Ooooo...I love these questions:)

First and foremost has to be Kisten (the Rachel Morgan series, although I recently finished a Few Demons More and I was stunned, angered, bewildered ect...)

Asher (the Anita Blake novels, the books have gone down hill, but the name still rocks)Oh and London and Requiem are complete guilty pleasures from the same series.

Willoughby (Sense and Sensability)
Ophelia (Hamlet)
Providence (LD:TLY)
Jayne, Mal, River, Inara (Firefly)
Phedra (the Kushiel series)
Morrow (I can't remember the name of the book)
Ianto (Torchwood)
Jane and Eyre (Jane Eyre, obviously)
Chance (can't remeber the book)
Ender, Valentine (Ender's Game)
Cormac (the Kitty series)
Curran (Magic Bites)
Mercy (Moon Called)
Annagrey (Nobel House)
Ianthe (The Choir)
Antigone, Ismene (Antigone)
Lenore (The Raven)
Emma (Emma)
Coraline (Coraline)
Dresden (The Dresden Files)
Gage (Pet Cemetary)
Nimue (Arthurian Lit)
Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
Sawyer (Tom Sawyer)
Poe (Poe)
Wilde (Oscar)
Cole (Cole Porter)


and the list goes on and on....

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I forgot about Sawyer.

[http://users.livejournal.com/chikoli_/]

Pretty much all the names from A Series of Unfortunate Events. Violet, Klaus, Olaf, Beatrice, Bertrand, Fiona, and Friday. Friday is probably my favorite. I even like Lemony.

I like Narcissa, but I'm not sure if I got that from Harry Potter.

I also like Jane from Jane Eyre, and Tobias from Animorphs.

[http://users.livejournal.com/chikoli_/]

Oh, and Trillian and Ford from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Lyra/Seraphina- His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman
Andromeda- My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Amelia Jane

[gidget1012.livejournal.com]

Amelia Jane is pretty

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ophelia, Juliet, Viola & Emilia.

Shakespeare

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Felicity- Mallory Towers.
Sorry, I'll stop remembering now..

[gidget1012.livejournal.com]

I love Mary Brenna and Darcy, from Nora Roberts books.
Charlotte is also a fav from the childrens book.
Ramona and Beverly from the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary.

[jamykins.livejournal.com]

there are a lot of names that happen the be characters, but most of the names i'm listing were because of the book/tv/movie

books:
atticus, scout, harper (to kill a mockingbird)
adah, ruth (the poisonwood bible)
max (where the wild things are)
josephine, margaret, amy, daisy (little women)
asher, levi, simon, joseph (the red tent)

tv:
gavin (rescue me)
willow (buffy the vampire slayer)
connor, liam, cordelia, wesley (angel)
maya, willa (six feet under)

movies:
dorothy, emily (the wizard of oz)
cassandra (wayne's world)
wyatt, morgan (tombstone)
bianca (10 things i hate about you)
murphy, rocco (the boondock saints)
addison, eve (all about eve)
nicholas, mackenzie (last kind of scotland)
cecelia (atonement)
antony, johanna (sweeney todd)

the disney princesses:
ariel, aurora, jasmine, belle, esmeralda

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

YAY! Willa! For the same reason!

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I don't read, and I don't like movies that much, but a lot of names I like come from TV. For instance, I like the names Olivia and Elliot because of Law and Order: SVU.

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

Henry and Clare!

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

May, which I'm thinking about using as a middle name, or possibly a first name. I got it from My Neighbour Totoro. It was the favourite movie of myself and my sister when we were kids, and we were almost exactly like the two main characters, Mei and Satsuki. I chose the spelling May, because Satsuki means May, and that's what connects the two girls.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Leah and Adah (The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver)
Henry and Clare (The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger) -- isn't it a great book?!
Atticus, Harper (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)
Madeline (Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans)
Finn, Huck (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)
Lusa, Jewel, Cole (Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver)

[hockeychick57.livejournal.com]

I simply adore Harper & Holden.

Except I got Holden originally from "Chasing Amy" and Harper from "Angels in America" though I have read Catcher & Mockingbird.

Some of mine are..
Bennett (Pride & Prejudice)
Connor (Boondock Saints)
Finley (In Great Expectations with Ethan Hawke his character's name is Finnigan, and he goes by Finn)
Gabriel (The Patriot)
Jude ("Hey Jude" by the Beatles)
Prior (Angels in America)
Bella (Twilight)

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Ah, more.

Bree - Desperate Housewives
Willa - Six Feet Under

Belle, Aurora - Disney

[mosscollection.livejournal.com]

We're giving our little girl the middle name Abra, after a character from East of Eden.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Books:

Girls:
Astrid - White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
Blue - Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)
Luna - Harry Potter series (J.K.Rowling) --> I liked the name before Harry Potter (it was really popular here at a certain point) but now I like it even more =)
Dolores - Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Sadie & Tamsin - My Summer of Love (Helen Cross)

Boys:
Francis - The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
Holden - The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

Tv:
Ariel - Medium
Peyton - CSI NY

I guess that's it =P

[jordle.livejournal.com]

According to my father (my Mum has a different story) I was named after Jordan in the Great Gatsby.

I think Tv/Books etc have a huge impact on me liking names. I want to name my first daughter Abigail Johanna Isobel. I got Abigail Johanna from Days of Our Lives!! Most of the names I love stem from TV.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I'm heavily influenced by literature, movies, plays, television, and music I love, when it comes to names. My list of favorite names is mostly due to books I grew up loving, and a good many of them are from L.M. Montgomery. I have most of her work, and there's a lot to be had, and we seem to have had similar taste in girl names, so she's a big part of my favorites list. Literary influences on my favorite names:

Annabel - "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allan Poe
Becca - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier--even though Rebecca herself was such a trampy bitch, I realized how much I loved Becca after reading this
Catherine - Catherine, Called Birdy, Karen Cushman
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
Eleanor - Sense and Sensibility--I prefer this spelling, but Elinor Dashwood is why I love the name
Emily - Emily of New Moon, L.M. Montgomery
Emma - Emma, Jane Austen
Estella - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Fleur - Château of Flowers, Margaret Rome
Ford - Anne's House of Dreams, L.M. Montgomery (although I also love Ford Prefect from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams)
Gilbert - Anne of Green Gables
Hazel - Pat of Silver Bush, L.M. Montgomery
Helen - Wait till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn--although Helen is vengeful ghost, there's something haunting (no pun intended) about the name to me now
Hilda - Magic for Marigold, L.M. Montgomery
Ilse - Emily of New Moon
Jade - nickname used in both Emily of New Moon
Jane - Jane Austen
Julian - Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
Kenneth - Rilla of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery
Leander - Magic for Marigold
Marianne - Sense and Sensibility
Marigold - Magic for Marigold
Patricia - Pat of Silver Bush
Persis - Rainbow Valley, L.M. Montgomery
Philippa - Anne of the Island, L.M. Montgomery
Reece - The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman--although in that, it was spelled Reese
Sara - A Little Princess, Frances Hogdson Burnett
Tilda - Matilda Bone, by Karen Cushman--didn't care much for the name or any variation before this
Una - Rainbow Valley
Valancy - The Blue Castle, L.M. Montgomery
Violet - "The Touch of Fate," L.M. Montgomery
Walter - Rilla of Ingleside
Xan - Children of Men, P.D. James

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

Jeez, I'm loving the L.M. love in here today.

I still love the books, but it just gets old after awhile. We have Anne, beaches, and potatoes...

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

Heheh, I thought I remembered someone in this community being from PEI, but I couldn't remember who.

She and Austen are by far my favorite authors. I've wanted to visit the Island since I was ten, and just revel in all the Anne stuff. I can just imagine it...

Me: "I'm sorry, I'm a little lost. Can you point me in the direction of Cavendish, please?"
Cue card flashing in local's head: "TOURIST: AMERICAN."

[peytonlee.livejournal.com]

I was looking through the baby album online from my local hospital, and i found 3... not just one or two... but THREE little girls named Lily James.

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

Wow.