What are your guys’ favorite author-inspired names? I like [name_u]Austen[/name_u] (Jane), [name_u]Shelley[/name_u] (Mary), [name_u]Christie[/name_u] (Agatha), [name_m]King[/name_m] (Stephen), [name_m]Shepard[/name_m] (Sara), [name_m]Grant[/name_m] (Michael) and Rowling (JK). It doesn’t have to be an uncommon or obvious one, I’m just wondering!
[name_f]Louisa[/name_f] [name_f]May[/name_f] [name_u]Alcott[/name_u], [name_u]George[/name_u] [name_u]Eliot[/name_u], and [name_u]Charles[/name_u] Dickens all have fantastic names!
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I also love [name_u]Austen[/name_u].
Other favourites are:
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f] (Christie)
[name_f]Anais[/name_f] (Nin)
[name_u]Auden[/name_u] (W.H)
[name_f]Brontë[/name_f] (Ann/Charlotte/Emily)
[name_m]Edgar[/name_m] (Allan Poe)
[name_u]Eliot[/name_u] (George)
[name_m]Fitzgerald[/name_m] (F.Scott)
[name_m]Fleming[/name_m] (Ian)
[name_u]Jules[/name_u] (Verne)
[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f] (Plath)
[name_u]Wilde[/name_u] (Oscar)
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[name_f]Brontë[/name_f]
[name_f]Margaret[/name_f]
[name_u]Atwood[/name_u]
[name_f]Angelou[/name_f]
[name_u]Poe[/name_u]
[name_u]Miller[/name_u]
[name_m]Orwell[/name_m]
[name_u]Keats[/name_u]
[name_m]Kipling[/name_m]
[name_u]Harper[/name_u]
[name_f]Jane[/name_f]
[name_u]Wilder[/name_u]
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[name_m]Thackeray[/name_m]
[name_m]Hemingway[/name_m]
[name_m]Riordan[/name_m]
[name_u]Keats[/name_u]
[name_u]Auden[/name_u]
[name_u]Flannery[/name_u]
[name_m]Faulkner[/name_m]
[name_f]Alice[/name_f]
[name_f]Zadie[/name_f]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m]
[name_u]Sinclair[/name_u]
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Mine are:
[name_f]Bronte[/name_f] (Bronte sisters)
[name_u]Collins[/name_u] (Wilkie Collins)
[name_u]Keats[/name_u] (John Keats)
[name_u]Alcott[/name_u] (Louisa [name_f]May[/name_f] Alcott)
[name_f]Cather[/name_f] (Willa Cather)
[name_u]Frost[/name_u] (Robert Frost)
[name_u]Bennett[/name_u] (Britt Bennett)
[name_f]Zadie[/name_f] (Zadie Smith)
[name_m]Bram[/name_m] (Bram Stoker)
[name_u]Ellis[/name_u] (as in, [name_u]Ellis[/name_u] [name_u]Bell[/name_u], [name_f]Emily[/name_f] Bronte’s psuedonym)
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[name_u]Alcott[/name_u]
[name_u]Atwood[/name_u]
[name_u]Auden[/name_u]
[name_u]Austen[/name_u]
[name_u]Beckett[/name_u]
[name_f]Bronte[/name_f]
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f]
[name_m]Edgar[/name_m]
[name_u]Eliot[/name_u]
[name_u]George[/name_u]
[name_m]Hemingway[/name_m]
[name_m]Hugo[/name_m]
[name_f]Julia[/name_f]
[name_u]Julianne[/name_u]
[name_u]Keats[/name_u]
[name_f]Margaret[/name_f]
[name_m]Oscar[/name_m]
[name_u]Rosen[/name_u]
[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f]
[name_m]Wells[/name_m]
[name_u]Wilde[/name_u]
[name_m]Winston[/name_m]
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[name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m] (Nathaniel)
[name_u]Emerson[/name_u] (Ralph Waldo)
[name_u]Alcott[/name_u] / [name_f]Louisa[/name_f] / [name_f]Lucy[/name_f] / [name_f]Mae[/name_f] / [name_f]May[/name_f] (Alcott)
[name_u]Henry[/name_u] (David Thoreau)
[name_f]Jane[/name_f] (Austen)
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[name_m]Geoffrey[/name_m], [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] (Hardy), [name_m]Gerard[/name_m], [name_m]Hallam[/name_m], [name_m]Alfred[/name_m], [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m], Seamas, [name_m]Colm[/name_m], [name_m]Chaim[/name_m], [name_m]Graham[/name_m], [name_u]Laurence[/name_u], [name_m]Theodore[/name_m], [name_m]Ambrose[/name_m], [name_m]Clemens[/name_m], [name_m]Wilfred[/name_m], [name_m]Wystan[/name_m], [name_m]Ole[/name_m] (Rolvaag)
[name_f]Jane[/name_f], [name_f]Barbara[/name_f] (Pym), [name_m]Acton[/name_m], [name_f]Edith[/name_f], [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] (Fuller), [name_f]Lydia[/name_f] (Peabody), [name_f]Winifred[/name_f] (Holtby), [name_f]Vera[/name_f] (Brittain), [name_f]Ruth[/name_f] (Rendell), [name_f]Josephine[/name_f] (Tey), [name_f]Daphne[/name_f] (Du Maurier), [name_f]Maeve[/name_f] (Binchy), [name_f]Rosamund[/name_f] (Pilcher)
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[name_m]Bram[/name_m] (Bram Stoker)
[name_u]Percy[/name_u] (Percy Shelley)
[name_m]Hugo[/name_m] (Victor Hugo)
[name_f]Vita[/name_f] (Vita Sackville-West)
[name_f]Brontë[/name_f] (The [name_f]Brontë[/name_f] sisters)
[name_f]Rumer[/name_f] (Rumer Godden)
[name_f]Anaïs[/name_f] (Anaïs Nin)
[name_u]Auden[/name_u] (W.H. Auden)
[name_f]Marina[/name_f] (Marina Tsvetaeva)
[name_u]Keats[/name_u] (John Keats)
[name_u]Kit[/name_u] + [name_u]Marlowe[/name_u] + [name_u]Kit[/name_u] [name_u]Marlowe[/name_u] as a combo (Christopher Marlowe)
Sticking only to surnames and surname names (otherwise we’d be here forever!).
Boys:
[name_u]Austen[/name_u] (Jane Austen)
[name_m]Byron[/name_m] (Lord Byron)
[name_u]Eliot[/name_u] (T S [name_u]Eliot[/name_u] & [name_u]George[/name_u] Eliot)
[name_m]Forster[/name_m] (E. M. Forster)
[name_u]Huxley[/name_u] (Aldous Huxley)
[name_m]Lewis[/name_m] (C. S. Lewis)
Rossetti (Christina Rossetti)
[name_m]Thomas[/name_m] (Dylan Thomas)
Girls:
[name_f]Bronte[/name_f] (Bronte sisters)
[name_u]Carroll[/name_u] (Lewis Carroll)
[name_u]Harper[/name_u] (Harper Lee)
I wish I could use Dickens but I feel like it’s asking to be made fun of.
Morgenstern would be a cool middle name (Erin Morgenstern)
[name_u]Wilkie[/name_u] (Collins)
[name_f]Deanna[/name_f] (Raybourn)
[name_f]Theadora[/name_f] (Goss)
Lukens (FT)
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Trauling through my Goodreads for this one… 
[name_f]Aphra[/name_f] - [name_f]Aphra[/name_f] Behn
[name_f]Attica[/name_f] - Attica Locke
[name_u]Flannery[/name_u] - Flannery O’Connor
[name_u]Harper[/name_u] - [name_u]Harper[/name_u] Lee
[name_u]Juno[/name_u] - Juno Dawson
[name_u]Lux[/name_u] - [name_f]Claudia[/name_f] [name_u]Lux[/name_u]
[name_f]Mary[/name_f] - [name_f]Mary[/name_f] Shelley
[name_f]Melina[/name_f] - Melina Marchetta
[name_f]Ottessa[/name_f] - Ottessa Moshfegh
[name_f]Ruth[/name_f] - [name_f]Ruth[/name_f] Ware
[name_f]Susanna[/name_f] - [name_f]Susanna[/name_f] Clarke
[name_u]Austen[/name_u] - Jane Austen
[name_m]Bram[/name_m] - [name_m]Bram[/name_m] Stoker
[name_m]Byron[/name_m] - Lord Byron
[name_m]Truman[/name_m] - [name_m]Truman[/name_m] Capote
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[name_u]Collins[/name_u] could also work for [name_f]Suzanne[/name_f], too!
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[name_u]Lux[/name_u], [name_u]Juno[/name_u] and [name_f]Attica[/name_f] are spectacular
Is that the same lord [name_m]Byron[/name_m] who was married to [name_f]Ada[/name_f] [name_u]Lovelace[/name_u]? [name_u]Or[/name_u] a different guy?
[name_f]Vita[/name_f] is so pretty, I’d definitely name a little girl that! Also, [name_u]Percy[/name_u] [name_u]Shelley[/name_u] as in [name_f]Mary[/name_f] Shelley’s husband? I didn’t know he wrote books.
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[name_f]Ada[/name_f] Lovelace’s dad, the one who wrote poems like “She walks in beauty” and was friends with [name_u]Percy[/name_u] and [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_u]Shelley[/name_u].
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A poet! I think Ozymandias is known as his most famous but I read Julian and Maddalo recently and all the works are very lyrical
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