Can Someone Help Me Help Me Think Of Baby Names For Boys And Girls Using Classic Literature Names?
07/04
Parents or avid readers of classic Literature please help me think of a neat way to incorperate Lit names as cute baby names for boys and girls!! And Modern names are very much welcomed as a middle name or a first name before the literary name. Ex: Austen(Jane Austen) Charles. THANKS so much!!
I love literature and here are some names:
Kate – author Kate Chopin
Scarlett O’Hara- Gone with the Wind
James – James Fennimore Cooper
Nathaniel- Nathaniel Hawthorne (my favorite author)
Sylvia – Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Emily Bronte
Willa Cather
Jack London
Sarah Orne Jewett
Mark Twain
Bret Harte
Edgar Allen Poe
Herman Melville
Shirley Jackson
Robert Frost
Silas Marner
George Eliot
Anne Bradstreet
Samuel Sewall
Sidney Lanier
Stephan Crane
Hephzibah/ Eppie – Silas Marner
Annable Lee – poem by Edgar Poe
Helen – peom by Edgar Poe
Virginia- Edgar Poe’s wife
Eliza- from the Boom in the Calaveras Clarion
Micah – from the Boom in the Calaveras Clarion
Peyton – from An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
Claire – from The American
Diana-Anne of Green Gables
Gilbert-Anne of Green Gables
Moody-Anne of Green Gables
Josie-Anne of Green Gables
Teddy – Little Women
Lawrence – Little Women
Josephine -Little Women
Meg -Little Women
Amy -Little Women
Beth -Little Women
Daisy – Little Women
Fritz – Little Women
Demi – Little Women
Charlotte – the author of the Yellow Wallpaper
Emma – from Jane Austen’s book
Darcy- from Pride and Prejudice
Elton – from Emma
Walter – Persuasion
I’ll list writers and characters and let you put them together from there lol.
Boys:
Alexandre/Alexander (Dumas)
James Matthew (Barrie wrote Peter Pan, etc.)
Daniel (Defoe – Robinson Crusoe)
Thomas (Hobbes, Hughes)
William (Kemp )
Jack London (he wrote White Fang and numerous others)
Girls:
Robin (Robinson Crusoe by Defoe)
May/Mae (Louisa May Alcott)
Charlotte (Bronte)
Emily (Bronte)
Anne (Bronte)
Willa (Cather wrote Alexander’s Bridge)
Scarlet (A Study in Scarlet by Doyle)
Holley/Holly (Marietta Holley – Samantha Among the Bretheren)
Virginia (Woolfe)
As for character names lol, we’d be here all day if I listed those so if you visit the link in my sources it may help.
A question dear to my heart… After donating 8 years of my time to the University to study literature only to become a mother (no regrets!), I too searched for name that cited my favorite authors and characters. Here are my favorites:
Boys:
Atticus: a character in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” (and a front runner for the baby boy we are expecting!)
Tristan: a tragic hero from the medieval tale, “Tristan and Isolde”
Holden: the hero from Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”
Romeo: classic Shakespearean hero (“Romeo & Juliet”)
Rhett: from “Gone with the Wind”
Cormac: namesake, author Cormac Macarthur
Lennox: character from Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Quentin: from “The Sound and the Fury”
Dorian: from Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Girls:
Ophelia: a tragic Shakespearean hero (“Hamlet”)
Lavinia: Greek & Roman mythology, also appears in Shakespeare’s Titus Adronicus
Harper: from the namesake, Harper Lee
Portia: Shakespeare, “Merchant of Venice”
Scout: a charater in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Christie Ashlyn (Agatha Christie)
Laura Beth (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Annie Kaye (Little Orphan Annie or Anne Frank)
Oliver Tate (Oliver Twist)
Harry James (Harry Potter)
Wyatt Whitman (Walt Whitman)
Vincent Miles ( Vincent ,? ,His last name eludes me right now,sorry)
Girls:
Bronte
Willa
Virginia (after Woolf)
Antonia
Eveline
Flannery
Eudora
Zora (Zora Neale Hurston)
Boys
Frost
Hemingway
Homer
Oscar
Bartholomew Fair
Dante
Oliver
Irving (after Washington Irving)
Salinger
Harper, Scout – To Kill A Mockingbird (I love Harper)
Here’s some from Shakespeare:http://babynames.com/Names/Shakespeare/
I have relatives who have named their three daughters Elfrieda, Thomasin and Cordelia after Thomas Hardy characters. I think that they’re lovely names, because although they’re different, they can easily be shortened!
Anne Marie-Anne of Green Gables
Jason Michael -Jason and the Argonauts
Charlotte (Lottie) — Bronte
Jack and Jill