Literary Names

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Just curious, what are your favorite names from books?

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[jadedsurprises.livejournal.com]

I love names from Shakespeare like Viola, Helena and Imogen for girls and Demetrius and Nathaniel for boys. But my biggest guilty pleasure name from a book is Aliena from The Pillars of the Earth. I don't think I would ever name my daughter that, but I love it!

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

Linton! I am absolutely enamored with that name.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

From Jane Austen novels I love:
Marianne
Elizabeth
Jane
Georgiana
Charlotte
Louisa

From Shakespeare I love:
Miranda
Adriana
Caius
Helena
Silvia
Marcus
Corin

I like a lot of old-fashioned names, so many of them are literary as well.

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Linton is excellent.

[theljfromheck.livejournal.com]

I don't really read much but I love the name Jonas from The giver and there are a lot of names from Harry Potter that I love.

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

I first heard Branwen and Zillah in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and have loved them since. I also love Mazarine and Delphine from The Master Butcher's Singing Club, but those are definitely guilty pleasures. And I had never heard of Cosima until I read Animal Dreams, and it's one of my favorites.

[fletwock.livejournal.com]

Bolded are some of my favorite names ever that I'd love to use some day.

The Iliad/The Odyssey:
Ajax
Argus
Hector
Helen
Nausicaa
Odysseus
Paris
Penelope
Priam

Shakespeare:
Bianca
Cassandra
Desdemona
Eleanor
Emilia
Ferdinand
Imogen
Iris
Katherine
Lavinia
Margaret
Maria
Mark
Morgan
Nell
Nerissa
Olivia
Ophelia
Percy
Portia
Rosalind
Rosaline
Sebastian
Silvia
Tamora
Ursula
Viola

Hunger Games:
Clove
Gale
Haymitch
Hazelle
Katniss
Primrose

I was going to make a Harry Potter list, but that would be so long.

[sunshinelucy.livejournal.com]

Edmund!

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

There are so many!!

Sarah Dessen uses a lot of names that I love for her characters:
Haven, Gwendolyn, Scarlett, Caitlin, Chloe, Lucas, Macy, Delia, Owen (my favorite of any of her characters, ever), Sophie, Emily, Ruby, Jamie (m.)

My favorite boys' name, Landon is from Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember.

Others:
Gemma (A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray)
Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Charles, Phoebe, Imogen, Kate, Henry, Duncan, Emilia (Various Shakespearean plays)- I also like William in honor of Shakespeare.

[cielamara.livejournal.com]

Lucy
Tess
Peter
Edna
Bianca
Helena
Katharina
Azucena

[spookymrsboo.livejournal.com]

Ephraim from The Strain

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

Atticus

[fangirlism]

I've always found Lenina (from Brave New World) to be an interesting name. A bit of a guilty pleasure, though.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I have way too many! Off the top of my head:

Hermia (Shakespeare)
Miranda (Shakespeare)
Henry (The Time Traveler's Wife)
Elizabeth (Jane Austen)
Elinor (Jane Austen)
Minerva (Harry Potter)
Thursday (The Eyre Affair)
Anne (Anne of Green Gables)
Diana (Anne of Green Gables)
Josie (Anne of Green Gables)
Stella (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Fiona (The Giver)
Cassandra (The Iliad)
Medea (Euripides)

[smirk-dog.livejournal.com]

Quentin (The Sound and the Fury), Edmund (Chronicles of Narnia), Melanie (Gone With the Wind), Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird), Holden (Catcher in the Rye), Zooey (Franny & Zooey), Jack (Gilead), Quoyle(the Shipping News), Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice) and Lysander (Midsummer Night's Dream.).

And I like the name Telemachus for a dog.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Briony, Holden, Scout.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter is full of awesome names!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flyingwild.livejournal.com]

Hehe, Hunger Games names...I wonder if there's going to suddenly be a bunch of little girls named Katniss?

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Oona, Iris, Atticus, Sebastian, Ariel, Zooey (really only because our dear friends have an *adorable* little Zooey!) Imogen, Esme, Alice, Zenobia, Mathilde, Mattie, Daphne, Dafna, Wolf, Sabine, Zara, Zivia, Eugenia.


My husband's all time favorite is probably Lev from the David Benioff's City of Thieves and I really love it too.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Oh man, how could I forget Hunger Games? I totally admit to having a soft spot for the name Peeta, although I like the Israeli Petah better. ;)


I just can't see Katniss taking off the same way Bella/Isabella did. Although, I would be secretly pleased to dozens of little Katnisses.

[queenfinn.livejournal.com]

Emma, Elinor, Catherine, Louisa, Chorlotte, Lucy, and Henry, all from Jane Austen (and Lucy from The Chronicles of Narnia as well). In fact I didn't like Henry at all until I read Austen's novels and now I love it, mostly because of Henry Tilney :)

I'm sure there's more but the only other name I can think of is Maryn, but that came from a movie, not a book.

[flyingwild.livejournal.com]

I also would be secretly pleased if it did take off, though I doubt it will. Rue is also a great name from the books that I loved.

[nafrate.livejournal.com]

The only time I've ever seen the name Azucena was in "And of Clay Are We Created," is that where you like it from? I always thought it was a beautiful name because of the story.

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

Griffin (my cats name) and Sabine from the Griffin & Sabine books by Nick Bantok

[cielamara.livejournal.com]

Yes! I don't know that I'd name a kid this, but the name is beautiful.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Astrid, from Janet Fitch's White Oleander! I love that name.

I've liked the name Luna for a long time as well, and Harry Potter's Luna just makes the name all the more awesome for me.

[veganvalentine.livejournal.com]

Luna (yes from HP)