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[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

This 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 - " "

Comments

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth - Pride & Prejudice
Fitzwilliam or Darcy - Pride & Prejudice
Ender - Ender's Game

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

A friend's daughter is named Darcey Elizabeth...

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of naming a kid after Mr. Darcy, but I've always considered the name Darcy to sound more like a girl's name. Maybe that's just me.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Ditto about Atticus, Holden, Siddalee (oh and Harper) :)
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

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

I do love Fitzwilliam, though. It creates the nickname Fitz and if he wanted a more "normal" name he could go by William.

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, Tallulah. Haha, when I first read the book when I was 14, I wanted to rename myself Tallulah and go by Tallie. I just thought it sounded cool :).

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 :(.

[cluckydude.livejournal.com]

My cat's name is Scout, from To Kill a Mockingbird, and I've also met a dog named Scout for the same book.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

If our younger son was a girl, he was gonna be Keladry, from Tamora Pierce's Protector Of The Small Books. :D

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Lyra- Northern Lights trlogy
Juliet- Such romantic connetations
Ariel- yes,the little mermaid!
Aurora- yes sleeping beauty!

Frankie- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I would never have considered Caspian until I read the Chronicles of Narnia.

[cocinadelfeto.livejournal.com]

Seamus, Cormac, Ginny, Oliver, Zacharias, Cedric... all from Harry Potter. Yes, I'm a geek. :)

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

Yeah, definitely forgot the second d, haha. I knew that.

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

I would never name my child anything obvious like Atticus, Holden, Salinger, Huck, etc. The literary connotations are just too high and I feel like people who use those names are trying to sound really intellectual and well-read. =/

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

Esme - the narrator's unborn daughter in Carrie Fisher's 3rd novel, Delusions of Grandma.

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

I agree. I especially wouldn't name my child Holden because, well, frankly I hated that damn book. HAHA

[kati-d.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth from pride and prejedice and Felicity from american girl dolls

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

I thought the point was you wouldn't actually name your kid the name, you just like the character so much.

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

My first daughter will be Anne, after Anne of Green Gables.

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.

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

ME TOO. I think we are the only two people who hated it.

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

Ah I misread that. no I'd never name a kid Ender..

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

I'd honestly name a kid Wavey after the character of the same name from The Shipping News. I know it's a weird name, but she's such an amazing character. That book had such an impact on me, I almost wanna say I'd name my kid Annie after Annie Proulx. In Wyoming they name girls Skye. In Newfoundland it's Wavey...

I'd absolutely name a child Anne after the one from Green Gables, too. =)

[cocinadelfeto.livejournal.com]

Ohh, and I also love Novalee from Where the Heart Is.

[maine-girl.livejournal.com]

My DD's MN is Catherine, after the character in "Wuthering Heights"
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)

[maine-girl.livejournal.com]

I didn't like the Shipping News novel, but loved the movie, and love the name Wavey in consequence. And I'm a HUGE Anne fan!

[maine-girl.livejournal.com]

Meant to put Lysander with the boys, of course :)