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[smurfb1ue.livejournal.com]

I recently read A is for Atticus, a book dedicated to literary names.

A few of my favorites:

Atticus
Celia
Eleanor
Esmé
Evangeline
Finnegan
Hadassah
Jasper
Josephine (Josie)
Matilda
Milo
Olivia (because children's books definitely count as literary!)
Penelope
Robin (m)
Toby (Tobias)

What are some of your favorite literary (and plain book) names?

Comments

[sunshinefleur.livejournal.com]

Scarlett. I fell in love with it when I was reading Gone With the Wind. by the end of the book, I'd decided that I was going to use it someday.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I love a lot of the names in Gone With The Wind (Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley on a boy, Melanie, India, Cathleen).

Claudia (Babysitter's Club)
Josephine (Little Women)
Eloise
Madeline

[smurfb1ue.livejournal.com]

I love both Eloise and Madeline. Eloise is such a spunky character in the children's books that it'd be fun to read them to a kid as she was growing up.

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

Atticus
Cate
Claire
Elizabeth
Hermione
James (Jamie/Jem)
Jane
Josephine
Juliet
Myfanwy
Nimue
Ophelia
Tobias

That's just what I can think of right now, but there are plenty of others.

[breezy-boo.livejournal.com]

Holden. love love love :)

[let-letitbe.livejournal.com]

Ramona
Ardith
Madeline
Juliet
Ophelia
James
Lily
Alice

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

i have a lot of favorite literary names, but a few of them are:
harriet (the spy)
roald (dahl)
matilda (see above)
james (see above)
carver (raymond)
louisa (may alcott)
barbara (kingsolver)
taylor (character in the bean trees and pigs in heaven)
codi (only as nn, and after a character in animal dreams)
allison (dorothy)
william (faulkner)
francis (scott fitzgerald)
harper (lee)
atticus (obvs.)
david (the d in jd salinger)
juliet (obvs., but i hate shakespeare, sooooo...)
alice (munro)
julia (glass)
willa (cather)
antonia (see above)

i also hate to admit this, but as much as i abhor twilight, i adore the vampires' names. i would not be naming my children after the books because ugh eww hate, but i adore jasper, emmett, edward, alice, and esme.

i would love to use all literary names for my kids, especially these four for girls:
harriet
willa
louisa
matilda

[smurfb1ue.livejournal.com]

I totally agree about the Twilight names. Fortunately, their names have been used in other literary works. Unfortunately, people are probably gonna jump for the Twilight reference first.

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

Madeline
Matilda
Jane

[wintertanlines.livejournal.com]

Atticus is great! Ever since I read that book, I was hooked on the name. Holden is another favorite, as is Matilda.

[smurfb1ue.livejournal.com]

I love that he's described as the same at home as he is on the street. What a great thing to pass on to your kid. One of my preschoolers, Violet, has a brother named Atticus, and it makes me happy every time I hear it.