[name_m]Hi[/name_m], I’m very new to boys names in general, but I was wondering what the book names are for them? I could think of [name_m]Atticus[/name_m] (to kill a mockingbird) and that was about it.
A few that come to mind
[name_m]Holden[/name_m]
[name_m]Dorian[/name_m]
[name_m]Oliver[/name_m]
[name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m]
[name_m]Gulliver[/name_m]
[name_m]Huck[/name_m]
[name_m]Benjamin[/name_m]
Bookish names for boys:
[name_m]Victor[/name_m] (Frankenstein)
[name_m]Marius[/name_m] (Les Misérables)
[name_m]Pip[/name_m] / [name_m]Phillip[/name_m] (Great Expectations)
[name_m]Jem[/name_m] (To Kill a Mockingbird)
[name_m]Ozias[/name_m] (Armadale)
[name_m]Rochester[/name_m] (Jane Eyre)
[name_m]Orlando[/name_m] (mc of the [name_f]Virginia[/name_f] [name_m]Woolf[/name_m] novel)
[name_m]Fergus[/name_m] (Waverley)
[name_f]Quincey[/name_f] (Dracula)
[name_m]Silas[/name_m] (Silas Marner / Uncle Silas)
[name_m]Ishmael[/name_m] (Moby Dick)
[name_m]Ezra[/name_m] (The Moonstone)
[name_m]Franklin[/name_m] (The Moonstone)
[name_m]Jude[/name_m] (Jude the Obscure)
[name_f]Darcy[/name_f] (Pride and Prejudice)
[name_m]Fitzwilliam[/name_m] (Pride and Prejudice)
[name_m]Jay[/name_m] (The Great Gatsby)
[name_m]Hamnet[/name_m] (from the [name_f]Maggie[/name_f] O’Farrell book)
[name_f]Ripley[/name_f] (The Talented Mr Ripley)
[name_m]Maurice[/name_m] (by EM Forster)
[name_m]Rufus[/name_m] (Kindred, They both die at the end)
[name_m]Ged[/name_m] (Wizard of Earthsea)
[name_m]Stevens[/name_m] (Remains of the Day)
[name_m]Laurie[/name_m], [name_m]Laurence[/name_m] & [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] - [name_m]Little[/name_m] Women
[name_m]Robin[/name_m] - [name_m]Christopher[/name_m] [name_m]Robin[/name_m] from [name_f]Winnie[/name_f] The Pooh
[name_m]Peter[/name_m] - [name_m]Peter[/name_m] [name_m]Pan[/name_m]
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m] - [name_m]Mansfield[/name_m] [name_m]Park[/name_m]
[name_m]Alexei[/name_m], [name_m]Levin[/name_m], [name_m]Nikolai[/name_m] - [name_f]Anna[/name_f] Karenina
[name_m]Percy[/name_m] - [name_m]Percy[/name_m] [name_m]Jackson[/name_m]
[name_m]Roger[/name_m], [name_m]Will[/name_m] - His [name_m]Dark[/name_m] Materials
[name_m]Finnick[/name_m] - Hunger Games
[name_m]Gatsby[/name_m] - The Great [name_m]Gatsby[/name_m]
[name_m]Sawyer[/name_m] - [name_m]Tom[/name_m] [name_m]Sawyer[/name_m]
[name_m]Wilbur[/name_m] - Charlotte’s [name_m]Web[/name_m]
Some of my favorites:
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m] - Twelfth [name_m]Night[/name_m]
[name_m]Marius[/name_m] - [name_f]Les[/name_f] Misérables
[name_m]Edmond[/name_m], [name_m]Maximilien[/name_m], [name_m]Gaspard[/name_m] (even though he’s bad) - The [name_m]Count[/name_m] of [name_m]Monte[/name_m] [name_m]Cristo[/name_m]
[name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m] - A [name_f]Christmas[/name_f] [name_f]Carol[/name_f]
[name_m]Gulliver[/name_m] - Gulliver’s Travels
[name_m]Peter[/name_m], [name_m]Edmund[/name_m], [name_m]Caspian[/name_m], [name_f]Rilian[/name_f] - The Chronicles of [name_f]Narnia[/name_f]
[name_m]Fitzwilliam[/name_m] (Pride & Prejudice)
Greystoke (Tarzan)
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m] (Persuasion)
Huckleberry/Sawyer (Mark [name_m]Twain[/name_m] novels)
[name_m]Jack[/name_m], [name_m]Algernon[/name_m], [name_m]Earnest[/name_m] (The Importance of Being Earnest)
[name_m]Arthur[/name_m] (King Arthur)
[name_m]Aramis[/name_m] (The Three Musketeers)
[name_m]Phoebus[/name_m], [name_m]Quasimodo[/name_m] (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
[name_m]Cyrano[/name_m] (Cyrano de Bergerac - [name_f]Magdaleine[/name_f] is also brilliant!)
[name_m]Percy[/name_m] (The [name_f]Scarlet[/name_f] Pimpernel)
[name_m]Laurie[/name_m] (Little Women)
[name_m]Gabriel[/name_m] (Evangeline by [name_m]Henry[/name_m] Wadsworth Longfellow)
[name_m]Gale[/name_m] (not sure it’s classic enough to count, but [name_m]Gale[/name_m] is a great name! From The Hunger Games)
[name_m]Jude[/name_m] (Jude the Obscure)