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babynamesThis has come up in a couple of posts over the past couple of days and now I'm interested. Are there any names that you'd consider naming your child after a literary character? I don't mean wanting to name your daughter "Jessica" and by coincidence, you happen to love a book with a character named Jessica. I mean that you never would have considered it, but you love that character so much that you'd use the name.
Boys
Atticus - To Kill a Mockingbird
Phineas (Finny/Finn) - A Separate Peace
Holden - Catcher in the Rye
Salinger - OK, not a literary character, but after JD Salinger (and I'd only use it as a middle name, DON'T WORRY)
Simon - Lord of the Flies [haha, I know, he dies and he turns into kind of a wuss, but in the beginning of the book he's my favorite character]
Huck - The Adventures of Huck Finn
Nick - The Nick Adams stories (Hemingway)
Girls
Scout - To Kill a Mockingbird (I know this one caused controversy because it's not her REAL name, but while I love Scout, I hate the name Jean for a girl and therefore could NEVER name my daughter Jean Louise. Louise is a middle name possibility though.)
Siddalee (Sidda) - Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Harper - OK, not a literary character, but after Harper Lee
Judith - once again, not a literary character, but after Judy Blume (I hate the name Judy, so I'd use the long version, and only as a mn since Judith is too long of a name for a 4-year-old without a nickname)
Caroline - Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Genevieve - " "
Boys
Atticus - To Kill a Mockingbird
Phineas (Finny/Finn) - A Separate Peace
Holden - Catcher in the Rye
Salinger - OK, not a literary character, but after JD Salinger (and I'd only use it as a middle name, DON'T WORRY)
Simon - Lord of the Flies [haha, I know, he dies and he turns into kind of a wuss, but in the beginning of the book he's my favorite character]
Huck - The Adventures of Huck Finn
Nick - The Nick Adams stories (Hemingway)
Girls
Scout - To Kill a Mockingbird (I know this one caused controversy because it's not her REAL name, but while I love Scout, I hate the name Jean for a girl and therefore could NEVER name my daughter Jean Louise. Louise is a middle name possibility though.)
Siddalee (Sidda) - Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Harper - OK, not a literary character, but after Harper Lee
Judith - once again, not a literary character, but after Judy Blume (I hate the name Judy, so I'd use the long version, and only as a mn since Judith is too long of a name for a 4-year-old without a nickname)
Caroline - Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Genevieve - " "
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Date: 2006-09-01 01:49 pm (UTC)Fitzwilliam or Darcy - Pride & Prejudice
Ender - Ender's Game
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Date: 2006-09-01 01:55 pm (UTC)I also like Vivi and Tallulah from 'Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood'.
Ada - Cold Mountain [there's also Ada Clare in Bleak House, thought that was a neat combo]
Emillia - Othello
Phoebe - Catcher in the Rye
Finny - bright angle time [as a nn for Finlay]
Japhy - dharma bums
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Date: 2006-09-01 01:57 pm (UTC)Phoebe's one of my favorite characters EVER, but when I hear that name, I can't help but think of Lisa Kudrow's annoyingly ditzy character on Friends. I'd never be able to get rid of that association :(.
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Date: 2006-09-01 02:06 pm (UTC)Juliet- Such romantic connetations
Ariel- yes,the little mermaid!
Aurora- yes sleeping beauty!
Frankie- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
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Date: 2006-09-01 03:16 pm (UTC)I like Elinor from Sense and Sensibility,
Emma
Nick from the Nick Adams stories by Hemingway. I also like Nick because of Nick Carraway, the narrator in The Great Gatsby.
Jake from The Sun Also Resises. It also made me a fan of Brett for a girl.
Ilse from Emily of New Moon by LM Montgomery.
My husband likes Sebastian Dangerfield from Donleavy's The Ginger Man.
I know this might not count but my first son will be John after John Adams. He was a real person, but I began to love him after reading the David McCulloch book.
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Date: 2006-09-01 07:52 pm (UTC)Eleanor is also one of my favorite girls' names. I think it's my #2 or #3 favorite, but I'd only use it as a middle. (after FDR's wife ;))
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Date: 2006-09-01 03:30 pm (UTC)I'd absolutely name a child Anne after the one from Green Gables, too. =)
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Date: 2006-09-01 03:55 pm (UTC)Girls:
Anne (Green Gables)
Tess (d'Urberville)
Elinor (Sense and Sensibility)
Elizabeth (Little Women)
Stella (Streetcar Named Desire)
Maeve (the Irish author)
Lysander (Midsummer Night's Dream)
Boys:
Phineas (Separate Peace)
Dorian (Portrait of Dorian Gray)
Alyosha (The Brothers Karamazov)
Oscar (as in Wilde)
Keats (the poet)
Zola (the French writer)
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Date: 2006-09-01 04:13 pm (UTC)Mine are like others.
Date: 2006-09-01 06:49 pm (UTC)Malachy from "Angela's Ashes"
Elizabeth from "P & P", also Emma
Jay from "Great Gatsby"
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Date: 2006-09-01 07:33 pm (UTC)Harper (obvious, same as yours, but this one is like, borderline on a real list).
Tess & Cullum from James Clavell's Tai Pan
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Date: 2006-09-02 06:42 pm (UTC)He doesn't get teased much but I think that's cus he's a pretty cool kid
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Date: 2006-09-01 09:22 pm (UTC)Maximilian - Rebecca
Sebastian - Twelfth Night
Gilbert - Anne of Green Gables
Madoc - A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Arthur - That guy with the round table, y'know?
Alice - Alice in Wonderland
Virginia - The 10th Kingdom
Meg - A Wrinkle in Time
Nimue - Arthurian legend
Kaylee - Firefly (okay, not a book, but still /brilliant/)
Oh, I'm sure there are others, but that's what springs to mind immediately.
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Date: 2006-09-02 12:53 am (UTC)YAY for both of those!! I also like the name Lamb for a boy, after the character in Summer Sisters. I love that book!!
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Date: 2006-09-02 01:33 am (UTC)Astrid (White Oleander)
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Date: 2006-09-02 02:25 am (UTC)... i wouldn't really, though. hearing that name kind of made me cringe, but once i fell in love with the character, i loved the name.
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Date: 2006-09-03 04:47 am (UTC)From Shakespeare, I like Helena, Lysander, Portia and Antonio.