I love, love, love books, but it’s hard to remember or know what names are out there. What are some of your favorites for boys or girls? Authors or characters or words! For example, I think [name_m]Bram[/name_m] is a pretty cool name as well as [name_u]Dune[/name_u].
Arrietty, [name_f]Anouk[/name_f] and [name_f]Eyre[/name_f] for a girl (The Borrowers, Chocolat, Jane [name_f]Eyre[/name_f])
Florin and [name_u]Lupin[/name_u] for a boy (The [name_f]Princess[/name_f] [name_f]Bride[/name_f] and Harry [name_m]Potter[/name_m])
I think lots of author surnames work well…
Austen
[name_f]Bronte[/name_f]
[name_f]Angelou[/name_f]
Fitzgerald
[name_u]Wilder[/name_u] or [name_u]Wilde[/name_u]
[name_m]Woolf[/name_m]
[name_m]Kerouac[/name_m]
[name_u]Eliot[/name_u]
[name_m]Faulkner[/name_m]
[name_m]Thackeray[/name_m]
etc.
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There’s a whole lot, but these stand out as strong associations:
[name_f]Matilda[/name_f]
[name_u]Auden[/name_u]
[name_u]Pevensie[/name_u]
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f]
[name_m]Caspian[/name_m]
[name_m]Samwise[/name_m]
[name_f]Louisa[/name_f]
[name_u]Anne[/name_u]
[name_f]Blythe[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavender[/name_f]
[name_f]Frances[/name_f]
[name_m]Theodore[/name_m]
[name_u]Laurence[/name_u]
[name_f]Hermione[/name_f]
[name_m]Fabian[/name_m]
[name_u]Florian[/name_u]
[name_m]Remus[/name_m]
[name_u]Alcott[/name_u]
[name_f]Angelou[/name_f]
[name_f]Isola[/name_f]
[name_m]Eben[/name_m]
[name_f]Arabella[/name_f]
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Stiorra, uhtred, leofric (The last kingdom series)
[name_f]Eowyn[/name_f], [name_f]Arwen[/name_f] ([name_m]Lord[/name_m] of the rings)
[name_f]Arrietty[/name_f] (the borrowers)
[name_f]Hermione[/name_f], [name_f]Ginevra[/name_f], [name_f]Lily[/name_f], [name_f]Lavender[/name_f], [name_m]Sirius[/name_m], [name_m]Remus[/name_m], molly ([name_u]Harry[/name_u] [name_m]Potter[/name_m])
[name_m]Lysander[/name_m] (a midsummer night’s dream)
[name_f]Alba[/name_f] (the time travellers’ wife)
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] (pride and prejudice, little women, poldark)
[name_f]Amabella[/name_f] (big little lies)
[name_f]Eilonwy[/name_f] (the chronicles of Prydain)
[name_f]Alanna[/name_f] (the song of the lioness)
[name_m]Asriel[/name_m] (his dark materials)
Dustfinger, silvertongue (inkheart)
[name_f]Morwenna[/name_f] (poldark)
[name_m]Dawsey[/name_m] (guernsey potato pie and literary society)
[name_m]Rhaegar[/name_m], [name_f]Daenerys[/name_f] (game of thrones)
[name_f]Esme[/name_f], [name_u]Carlisle[/name_u], Lorent, [name_u]Emmett[/name_u] (twilight)
[name_f]Primrose[/name_f], [name_u]Rue[/name_u], [name_f]Katniss[/name_f], [name_u]Gale[/name_u] (Hunger Games)
[name_f]Inara[/name_f] (the butterfly garden)
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The only one to come to mind right now is [name_u]Dorian[/name_u], which is in my top 5 - I absolutely adore The Picture of [name_u]Dorian[/name_u] [name_u]Gray[/name_u].
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You got so many of my favorite names from books! I’ll have to go back and edit my list.
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