[name_m]Just[/name_m] that really. Looking for writerly names. They can be favourite author names, character names or inspired either by specific books or generally by writing e.g [name_u]Fable[/name_u], [name_f]Poem[/name_f].
i love Story, Poem & Poet!
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Some of my favourites include:
[name_f]Brontë[/name_f] (the [name_f]Brontë[/name_f] sisters)
[name_u]Alcott[/name_u] (Louisa [name_f]May[/name_f] Alcott)
[name_u]Collins[/name_u] (Wilkie Collins)
[name_f]Willa[/name_f] (Willa Cather)
[name_f]Ginevra[/name_f] (Fanshawe from Villette)
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f] (Snowe from Villette)
[name_f]Estella[/name_f] (From Great Expectations)
[name_f]Sonnet[/name_f]
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Characters:
[name_f]Enid[/name_f] (Worst Witch series)
[name_f]Yvaine[/name_f] (Stardust)
[name_f]Lyra[/name_f] (His Dark Materials series)
[name_f]Eponine[/name_f] (Les Miserables)
[name_f]Fern[/name_f] (Charlotte’s Webb)
[name_f]Primrose[/name_f] (Hunger Games series)
[name_f]Isadora[/name_f] (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
[name_f]Esme[/name_f] (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
[name_f]Matilda[/name_f] (Matilda)
[name_f]Coraline[/name_f] (Coraline and [name_m]Le[/name_m] Toreador)
[name_u]Sunny[/name_u] (A Series of Unfortunste Events)
[name_f]Miranda[/name_f] (The Tempest)
Authors / references:
[name_f]Cornelia[/name_f] (Cornelia Funke)
[name_f]Beatrix[/name_f] (Beatrix Potter)
[name_f]Olympe[/name_f] (playwright and [name_u]French[/name_u] revolutionary [name_f]Olympe[/name_f] de Gouges)
[name_f]Edith[/name_f] (Edith Wharton)
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f] / [name_f]Lucy[/name_f] [name_f]Maud[/name_f] (Lucy [name_f]Maud[/name_f] Montgomery)
[name_f]Mary[/name_f] (Mary Shelley)
[name_f]Blume[/name_f] (Judy Blume)
[name_f]Virginia[/name_f] (Virginia Woolf)
[name_f]Madeleine[/name_f] (Madeleine L’Engle)
[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f] (Sylvia Plath)
[name_f]Bronte[/name_f] (Bronte sisters, any of their first names make great choices too)
[name_f]Octavia[/name_f] (Octavia E. Butler)
[name_f]Maya[/name_f] (Maya Angelou)
[name_f]Louisa[/name_f] (Louisa [name_f]May[/name_f] Alcott)
[name_f]Phillis[/name_f] (Phillis Wheatley)
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f] (Agatha Christie)
[name_f]Ouida[/name_f]
[name_m]Byron[/name_m] (yes I think this one works as a unisex option, [name_m]Lord[/name_m] Byron)
[name_u]Tempest[/name_u] (reference to the [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m] play The Tempest)
[name_f]Sappho[/name_f] (archaic Greek poet [name_f]Sappho[/name_f] of Lesbos)
[name_u]Voltaire[/name_u] / [name_f]Voltairine[/name_f] (Voltairine is quite clunky imo so I’d go with [name_u]Voltaire[/name_u] personally, though [name_f]Voltairine[/name_f] is an existing feminization which was the given name of anarchist author [name_f]Voltairine[/name_f] de [name_f]Clayre[/name_f], whose parents named her after [name_u]Voltaire[/name_u], so wither option has quite cool literary references.)
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I’ve really started liking [name_f]Jane[/name_f] after reading [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_f]Eyre[/name_f] and Pride and Prejudice this year!
Some others I love
[name_f]Dora[/name_f] (Krupićeva, from a Croatian novel The Goldsmith’s Treasure)
[name_f]Faline[/name_f] (from Bambi)
[name_f]Gita[/name_f] (from a Croatian novel Lapitch the [name_m]Little[/name_m] Shoemaker)
[name_f]Louisa[/name_f] (May Alcott)
[name_f]Nina[/name_f] (Zenik, from Six of Crows)
Ottessa (Moshfegh)
[name_f]Sarai[/name_f] (from Strange the Dreamer)
[name_u]Scout[/name_u] (from TKAM)
[name_f]Soraya[/name_f] (from Kite Runner)
[name_f]Virginia[/name_f] (au [name_m]Augustus[/name_m], from [name_u]Red[/name_u] Rising)
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Louisa
May
Alcott
Rose
Phebe
Margaret, Josephine, Elizabeth!
Scarlett
Jane
Scout
Hermione
Edmund
Peter
Willoughby
Theodore
Laurence
These are my classic faves!
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Oh my God, you just made me remember that I completely forgot to include the [name_u]Pevensie[/name_u] kids’ names on my list, even though they’re the reason why I love the names [name_m]Peter[/name_m], [name_f]Susan[/name_f], [name_m]Edmund[/name_m] and [name_f]Lucy[/name_f]! And [name_m]Caspian[/name_m] also (Ben Barmes definitely helped 
)!
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[name_u]Poet[/name_u]
[name_u]Fable[/name_u]
[name_u]Story[/name_u]
Writer
[name_u]Scout[/name_u]
[name_f]Bronte[/name_f]
[name_u]Lyric[/name_u]
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Love
Rue, Prim(Rose), Posy, Rory, {The Hunger Games}
Beatrice (Tris), Christina {Divergent}
Julian, Emma, Drusilla, Tiberius, Octavian, Livia, James (Jem), Theresa (Tessa), Wilhelmina (Mina), Christopher (Kit), Jace, Alexander (Alec), Lucie, Matthew, Cordelia {Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunters series’s
Stephanie {Skulduggery Pleasant}
Magnus, Alex, Percy, Nico {Rick Riordan}
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Names from books:
[name_f]Faye[/name_f] - The [name_f]Nix[/name_f]
[name_u]Hollis[/name_u] - Pictures of [name_u]Hollis[/name_u] [name_m]Woods[/name_m]
Alyeska - The Great Alone
[name_f]Daisy[/name_f] - [name_f]Daisy[/name_f] [name_m]Jones[/name_m] & the Six
[name_u]Rue[/name_u], [name_f]Primrose[/name_f] - The Hunger Games
[name_u]Aria[/name_u] - [name_f]Pretty[/name_f] [name_m]Little[/name_m] Liars
[name_u]Wren[/name_u] - Fangirl
[name_f]Soraya[/name_f] - The Kite Runner
[name_u]Tempest[/name_u] - The [name_u]Tempest[/name_u]
Others:
[name_f]Saga[/name_f]
[name_u]Fable[/name_u]
[name_f]Lore[/name_f]
[name_u]Reid[/name_u] (sounds like read, also author [name_u]Taylor[/name_u] [name_m]Jenkins[/name_m] Reid)
[name_f]Lois[/name_f] (author [name_f]Lois[/name_f] Lowry)
[name_u]Auden[/name_u] (poet W. H. Auden)
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You’re speaking my love language!
Characters:
[name_f]Fern[/name_f] (Charlotte’s Web)
[name_u]Garnet[/name_u] (Thimble Summer)
[name_f]Lyra[/name_f] (His Dark Materials)
[name_f]Hermione[/name_f]
[name_f]Minerva[/name_f] (Harry [name_m]Potter[/name_m], duh)
[name_f]Cassandra[/name_f] (I Capture the Castle)
[name_u]Ruby[/name_u]
[name_f]Marilla[/name_f] (Anne of [name_u]Green[/name_u] Gables)
[name_u]Scout[/name_u] (To Kill a Mockingbird)
[name_f]Elanor[/name_f] (Lord of the Rings)
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] (Cold Mountain)
Authors:
[name_f]Madeleine[/name_f] (L’Engle)
[name_f]Ursula[/name_f] (LeGuin)
[name_u]Harper[/name_u] (Lee)
[name_f]Willa[/name_f] (Cather)
[name_u]Bell[/name_u] (Hooks)
[name_f]Octavia[/name_f] (Butler)
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I really like [name_f]Astoria[/name_f] nn [name_u]Story[/name_u].
But also:
[name_f]Juliet[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosalind[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Viola[/name_f]
(I pretty much love all Shakespeare’s names!)
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Isolde[/name_f]
[name_f]Esmeree[/name_f]
[name_f]Annabelle[/name_f] [name_u]Lee[/name_u]
[name_f]Padme[/name_f] and [name_f]Amidala[/name_f] - even though I’m honestly not a [name_f]Star[/name_f] Wars fan whatsoever but I just love these names
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Mine have always been:
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] (Bennet, and a number of others – author [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] Goudge)
[name_f]Elnora[/name_f] (A [name_f]Girl[/name_f] of the Limberlost)
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] (Much [name_f]Ado[/name_f] About Nothing)
[name_f]Elinor[/name_f] (Dashwood)
[name_f]Eleanor[/name_f] (Tilney)
[name_f]Violet[/name_f] (Alden from The Boxcar Children, lol)
[name_f]Lilias[/name_f] (Craven from The [name_f]Secret[/name_f] Garden – I also LOVE [name_u]Lennox[/name_u]! Maybe as a middle name.)
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f], [name_f]Emily[/name_f], and [name_u]Anne[/name_u] (I also like [name_f]Brontë[/name_f], though I’m not brave enough)
[name_f]Helen[/name_f] (Tenant of Wildfell [name_m]Hall[/name_m], [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_f]Eyre[/name_f])
[name_f]Alice[/name_f] (in Wonderland)
[name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Katherine[/name_f], [name_f]Jane[/name_f], [name_f]Catherine[/name_f], [name_u]Anne[/name_u], [name_f]Frances[/name_f], [name_u]Elliott[/name_u], [name_m]Bennet[/name_m], [name_u]Darcy[/name_u], Bingley, Tilney, [name_f]Marianne[/name_f], [name_f]Margaret[/name_f], [name_f]Lydia[/name_f] (also [name_u]Austen[/name_u] names!)
[name_u]Austen[/name_u] (only spelled that way, of course)
[name_f]Daisy[/name_f] (Gatsby, anyone?)
[name_f]Gwen[/name_f] (The Importance of Being [name_m]Earnest[/name_m])
[name_f]Rosalind[/name_f], [name_f]Celia[/name_f], [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f], [name_f]Juliet[/name_f], [name_f]Viola[/name_f] (Shakespeare)
[name_f]Briony[/name_f] (Atonement)
Honestly, that’s only the beginning. I’m an author, so I’m not a big “Novella/Poem/etc.” kind of person. They’re just work names, sort of like an accountant naming their baby QuickBooks.
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