What are your top 5 baby names from literature?

I like to read and a lot of my favourite names are from books. I would like some more ideas.


Could you please write your top 5 names for a boy and a girl and also include what book they are from.


Mine are - Girls:


1.Lydia (Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice)


2. Clara (Charles Dickens - Great Expectations)


3. Alice (Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)


4. Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans - Madeline)


5. Matilda (Roald Dahl - Matilda)





Boys:


1. Oliver (Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist)


2. Atticus (Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird)


3. Nicholas (Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby)


4. Sebastian (Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited)


5. Max (Maurice Sendak - Where The Wild Things Are)





Thank you


:)|||I used to have this requirement that the names I liked had to be found in kids literature (it went with a tradition I like of giving a child a book that includes their name for their birthday), so that's where a lot of these name come from:





1. Madeline (the Madeline series by Ludwig Bemelmans)


2. Genevieve (the Madeline series by Ludwig Bemelmans)


3. Amelia (Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish)


4. Minerva (from Harry Potter by JK Rowling)


5. Matilda (from Matilda by Roald Dahl)





Boys:


1. Holden (from Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger)


2. Arthur (the Arthur books by Marc Brown)


3. George (from the Curious George series by Hans Augusto Rey and Margaret Rey; as well as Harry Potter by JK Rowling)


4. Alexander (from Alexander series by Judith Viorst)


5. Max (from Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak; as well as Max and Ruby by Rosemary Wells)|||That's a very good question.





1. Lyra (Phillip Pullman - The Golden Compass)


2. Lucy (C. S. Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia)


3. Scout (Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird)


4. Arwen (J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings)


5. Elinor (Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility)





1. Holden (J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye)


2. Phillip (Great Expectations)





Eek that's all i can think of you stole the good ones:))





Love Charles Dickens, by the way!|||Boys:


1. Aramis ("The Three Musketeers" - Alexander Dumas)


2. Holden ("The Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger)


3. Rhett ("Gone With the Wind" - Margaret Mitchell)


4. Simon ("Lord of the Flies" - William Golden)


5. Laertes ("Hamlet" - William Shakespeare)








Girls:


1. Ligeia ("Ligeia" - Edgar Allan Poe)


2. Bianca ("The Taming of the Shrew" - William Shakespeare)


3. Honoria ("Bleak House" - Charles Dickens)


4. Daisy ("The Great Gatsby" - F. Scott Fitzgerald)


5. Paquette ("Candide" - Voltaire)|||1. Marianne (Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility)

2. Catherine (Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights)

3. Viola (Shakespeare - The Twelfth Night)

4. Jane (Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre)

5. Tess (Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbrevilles)



1. Sebastian (Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited)

2. Henry (Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey)

3. Alec (Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbrevilles)

4. Arthur (Anne Bronte - Tenant of Wildfell Hall)

5. Nick (F. Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby)|||girls


1. Kahlan (the sword of truth series - Terry Goodkind)


2. Ellimere (Abhorson trilogy - Garth Nix)


3. Lirael (Abhorson trilogy - Garth Nix)


4. Emma (Emma - Jane Austen)


5.





boys:


1. Ivan (Enchantment - Orson Scott Card)


2. Ender (Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card)


3. Zaknafein (Dark Elf trilogy - R.A. Salvatore)


4. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen)


5.








Well, I'm drawing a blank now, but writing these out shows how an odd number of names that i like come from fantasy/sci-fi book. Probably do to the fact that my favorite author is japanese and it would probably be a bit strange to use some of those names seeing as how i am not japanese. Anyway, those are the ones i was able to think of.|||i like all of your boys names, my favorites are Oliver %26amp; Atticus. i like Alice from the girls.

umm...i'm just gonna list some book characters that i know of?

Pippy (Pippy Longstocking)

Wilbur (Charlotte's web)

Charlotte (Charlotte's web)

Shiloh (Shiloh)

George (Curious George, lol)

Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Ella (shortened from "Cinderella")

Holly (Holly and Christopher)

Christopher (Holly and Christopher)

Pheobe (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)

Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

Romeo (Romeo and Juliet)



......well thats all i can think of at the moment.sorry not much of a reader:/|||1. Matilda (Matilda)


2. Alice (Alice in Wonderland)


3. Bronte (Bronte Sisters)


4. Lydia (Pride and Prejudice)


5. Anna (My Sisters Keeper)





1. Charlie (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)


2. Oliver (Oliver Twist)


3. Holden (The Catcher in the Rye)


4. Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird)


5. -----|||Girls:


1. Serena (The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser)


2. Tessa/Tess (Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy)


3. Amabel (World Without End - Ken Follett)


4. Jane (Jane Eyre)


5. Cordelia (King Lear)





Boys:


1. Dorian (The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde)


2. Jude (Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy)


3. Arthur (King Arthur)


4. Miles (Turn of the Screw - Henry James)


5. Lestat (Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice) - only a guilty pleasure name!





:)|||girls:

1. Bellatrix (Harry Potter - JK Rowling)

2. Suzanna "Zanna" (Un Lun Dun - China Miéville)

3. Violet (A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket)

4. Lyra (His Dark Materials series - Philip Pullman)

5. Clare (The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger)





boys:

1. Milo (The Phantom Tollbooth - Norman Juster)

2. Rhys (The Two Princesses of Bamarre - Gail Carson Levine)

3. Blaise (Harry Potter - JK Rowling)

4. Phineas "Finny" (A Separate Peace - John Knowles)

5. Artemis (Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer)|||Alice --- "Alice In Wonderland"


Bianca --- "Othello"


Beatrice --- "Much Ado About Nothing"


Nerissa --- from Greek Mythology


Daisy --- "The Great Gatsby"





Byron --- Lord Byron, a Romantic Poet


Sebastian --- "Twelfth Night"


Mischa --- "Angel On The Square"


Benedick --- "Much Ado About Nothing"


James --- from the James Bond series of books|||Ooh, this is a fun challenge ... let's see.



Boys:

Holden (Catcher in the Rye)

Atticus (also a favorite of mine)

Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia)

Iago (Othello)

Cassius (Julius Caesar)



Girls:

Lyra (The Golden Compass)

Wendy (Peter Pan)

Rowena (Ivanhoe)

Vanessa (Cadenus and Vanessa)

Miranda (The Tempest)|||1. Amy (Little Women)


2. Charlotte (Charlotte's Web)


3. Juliet (Romeo %26amp; Juliet)


4. Catherine (Wuthering Heights)|||Cassie: Night in a Lonesome October

Alice: Alice in Wonderland

Charlie: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Starbuck: Moby Dick

Augusten: Running With Scissors|||Ignore emiyly, she's been posting that answer on everyone's questions..





I like Briony from Atonement @D|||1. Beatrice (Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing)


2. Elizabeth (Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice)


3. Cassandra (Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle)


4. Jenny (Johann Wyss - The Swiss Family Robinson)


5. Julia (George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four)





1. Dickon (Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Secret Garden


2. Harry (J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter)


3. Garion (David Eddings - The Belgariad)


4. Matthew (Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables)


5. Oscar (H.E. Bates - The Darling Buds of May)





These are only of books I have read so far though, in time hopefully my reading repertoire will expand!





- Joanna Eve