Okay, my turn!
Your favorite name(s) from your favorite book: [name_f]Natalya[/name_f]/Natasha, [name_m]Andrei[/name_m], [name_f]Marya[/name_f], [name_m]Nikolai[/name_m], [name_f]Sonya[/name_f] (War & [name_u]Peace[/name_u], Tolstoy) & [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Jane[/name_f], [name_u]Anne[/name_u] ([name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_u]Austen[/name_u])
Your least favorite name(s) from your favorite book: [name_u]Boris[/name_u], [name_m]Vassily[/name_m], [name_m]Anatole[/name_m], [name_f]Catiche[/name_f], [name_f]Vera[/name_f] (War & [name_u]Peace[/name_u], Tolstoy) & [name_f]Augusta[/name_f] ([name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_u]Austen[/name_u])
A name you love from a book you did not love: [name_m]Marius[/name_m] ([name_u]Les[/name_u] Misérables, [name_m]Hugo[/name_m])
A name that was ruined for you by a book: ([name_m]Can[/name_m]'t think of any right now, but I know there have been plenty – that’s why they are not among my lists where I can find them!)
A name you love now because of a book: [name_u]Gabriel[/name_u] (Far From the Madding Crowd, [name_m]Hardy[/name_m])
A name you love but wouldn’t use because it belongs to a fictional character you dislike:* [name_f]Lydia[/name_f] (Pride & Prejudice, [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_u]Austen[/name_u])
A name you hate but want to love because of a fictional character you like: [name_m]Edward[/name_m] ([name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_f]Eyre[/name_f], [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] Brontë; Sense & Sensibility, [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_u]Austen[/name_u])
A literary name you’ve noticed everyone seems to love, whether you do or not: [name_m]Caspian[/name_m] (The Chronicles of [name_f]Narnia[/name_f], [name_m]Lewis[/name_m])
A literary name you’re just kind of crushing on at the moment: [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m]! I am just struck by what a fabulous literary name it would make for a boy.
Your all-time favorite literary name(s): …that I haven’t mentioned above…
Aimée, [name_f]Molly[/name_f], [name_m]Roger[/name_m] (Wives & Daughters, Gaskell)
[name_f]Beatrix[/name_f] ([name_m]Potter[/name_m])
[name_f]Elanor[/name_f], [name_f]Merry[/name_f] (b) (The [name_m]Lord[/name_m] of the Rings, Tolkien)
[name_u]Emerson[/name_u] ([name_m]Ralph[/name_m] [name_m]Waldo[/name_m])
[name_f]Cecily[/name_f], [name_f]Gwendolen[/name_f] (The Importance of Being [name_m]Earnest[/name_m], [name_u]Wilde[/name_u])
[name_m]Colin[/name_m] (The [name_f]Secret[/name_f] Garden, [name_m]Burnett[/name_m])
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f], [name_m]Gilbert[/name_m] ([name_u]Anne[/name_u] of [name_u]Green[/name_u] Gables, L.M. [name_u]Montgomery[/name_u])
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m], [name_f]Lucy[/name_f] (The Chronicles of [name_f]Narnia[/name_f], [name_m]Lewis[/name_m])
[name_f]Esther[/name_f] (Bleak House, Dickens)
[name_m]Henry[/name_m] (Northanger [name_u]Abbey[/name_u], [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_u]Austen[/name_u])
[name_m]Theodore[/name_m]/Teddy ([name_m]Little[/name_m] Women, [name_u]Alcott[/name_u])
[name_m]Wilder[/name_m] ([name_f]Laura[/name_f] Ingalls)
I could go on! So many of my names come from books.
*Could have easily gone for [name_f]Catherine[/name_f], [name_f]Daisy[/name_f], or [name_f]Juliet[/name_f] here, too, but there are also literary characters with those names that I do like, so I guess they cancel out? Either way, I do love them enough to consider them, unlike [name_f]Lydia[/name_f].