Novel Inspired Girls Names?

Girl Names
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What names have you fallen in love with due to a book you’ve read either as a child or as an adult?

As a child:
[name]Clara[/name] and [name]Marie[/name] : E.T.A Hoffman’s The Nutcracker and The Mouse [name]King[/name] - In the original story the little girl’s name was [name]Marie[/name] not [name]Clara[/name], [name]Clara[/name] was one of her dolls.
[name]Eloise[/name]: [name]Kay[/name] [name]Thompson[/name]'s [name]Eloise[/name] Series.
[name]Wendy[/name]: [name]Jim[/name] [name]Barrie[/name]'s [name]Peter[/name] [name]Pan[/name], gave me a soft spot for her.

As a teenager/young adult:
Griet - [name]Tracy[/name] [name]Chevalier[/name]'s Girl with a [name]Pearl[/name] Earring
[name]Petra[/name] : [name]John[/name] [name]Wyndham[/name]'s The Chrysalids, this little girl was sooo cute!
[name]Zoya[/name] : [name]Danielle[/name] [name]Steel[/name]'s [name]Zoya[/name], I loved this book, which was suprising because [name]Steel[/name]'s work is usually to gushy.

There’s more, but I can’t think of them right now :slight_smile:

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I wouldn’t call them loves, but they were crushes at different points after reading the books:

[name]Felicity[/name] – American Girl
[name]Ramona[/name] – [name]Beverly[/name] [name]Cleary[/name]'s books
[name]Selene[/name] – [name]Hieronymus[/name] White by [name]Jeff[/name] [name]Moss[/name], a goofy rhyming book
[name]Billie[/name] [name]Jo[/name] – Out of the Dust, a children’s novel
[name]Irene[/name] – (don’t laugh at me, the book made it so sweet) Twice Freed

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As a child:
[name]Felicity[/name]: American Girl (I second alzora’s crush!)
[name]Kirsten[/name]: American Girl
[name]Hermione[/name]: [name]Harry[/name] [name]Potter[/name]
[name]Amy[/name]: Little Women

As an adult:
[name]Ophelia[/name]: [name]Hamlet[/name] (surprise, surprise)
[name]Julia[/name]: 1984
[name]Scarlett[/name]: Gone With the Wind
[name]Sofia[/name]: The [name]Sparrow[/name]
[name]Aliena[/name]: Pillars of the [name]Earth[/name]

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I don’t know if I would use it, but I really like [name]Josephine[/name] from [name]Little[/name] Women. [name]One[/name] of my favorites.

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[name]Georgiana[/name]! I loved [name]Georgiana[/name] [name]Darcy[/name] in Pride and Prejudice. Actually, I love pretty much every name in [name]Jane[/name] [name]Austen[/name]'s books. haha.

I love a lot of Shakespearean names, too–[name]Viola[/name] (although I prefer [name]Violet[/name]), [name]Olivia[/name], [name]Emilia[/name], [name]Julia[/name], [name]Cressida[/name], etc…

I’m a huge fan of The Chronicles of [name]Narnia[/name], too–I really love [name]Peter[/name], [name]Edmund[/name], and [name]Caspian[/name] from that (I wish I liked [name]Lucy[/name] and [name]Susan[/name], so I actually could like some of the girls’ names, haha).

I love [name]Oscar[/name] Wilde’s The Importance of Being [name]Earnest[/name], too, and I adore the main characters’ names from it–[name]Jack[/name], [name]Gwendolyn[/name], and [name]Cecily[/name], especially, but [name]Algernon[/name]'s quirky and fun, too.

I have grown up on [name]Christian[/name] fiction novels, too, and love a lot of the names I came across in those–[name]Micah[/name] (b), [name]Lacey[/name], [name]Landon[/name] (b), [name]Rachel[/name], [name]Jack[/name] (b), [name]Quinn[/name] (b), [name]Sara[/name], [name]Joe[/name]/[name]Bear[/name] (b), [name]Grace[/name]/[name]Gracie[/name], [name]Darcy[/name], [name]Sam/name, [name]Nadia[/name], [name]Marina[/name], [name]Ekaterina[/name], [name]Oksana[/name], etc.

Most of the names on my list are from family, the Bible, classic literature, or the Chronicles of [name]Narnia[/name], though.

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Diasy from the Great [name]Gatsby[/name], I don’t care if no one likes her, I loved her!! I was set on naming my daughter [name]Daisy[/name] when I was fifteen.

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Here are some of my favorites!

Then:
[name]Laura[/name]/[name]Mary[/name]/[name]Caroline[/name]/[name]Grace[/name]: [name]Little[/name] House on the [name]Prairie[/name] Series
[name]Violet[/name]: The Series of Unfortunate Events
[name]Lena[/name]: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
[name]Annie[/name]: The [name]Magic[/name] Tree House
[name]Scout[/name]: To Kill a Mockingbird
[name]Daisy[/name]: The Great [name]Gatsby[/name]
[name]Winnie[/name]: [name]Tuck[/name] Everlasting

Now:
[name]Antonia[/name]: My [name]Antonia[/name]
[name]Clare[/name]: The Time [name]Traveler[/name]'s Wife
[name]Briony[/name]: Atonement
[name]Francie[/name]: A Tree Grows in [name]Brooklyn[/name]
[name]Clarice[/name]: [name]Silence[/name] of the Lambs
[name]Alice[/name]: A Map of the World
[name]Jane[/name]: Through a Window
[name]Cassie[/name]: The Likeness/Into the Woods

Thats all that I could think of at the moment, but I’m sure there are much more!

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Ooh! I’m a huge bookworm. My favorite names:

[name]Dorothea[/name]- Middlemarch (I haven’t actually finished the book, but it inspired me to really love the name, as well as the nn [name]Doro[/name].)
[name]Anna[/name]- [name]Anna[/name] Karenina
[name]Francie[/name]- A Tree Grows in [name]Brooklyn[/name]
[name]Josephine[/name]- [name]Little[/name] Women
[name]Georgiana[/name]- Pride and Prejudice
[name]Bonnie[/name]- Gone With the Wind
[name]Cecilia[/name]- Atonement
[name]Celia[/name]- Middlemarch
[name]Agnes[/name]- I can’t remember the title, but it was by [name]Irene[/name] Nemirovsky
[name]Anastasia[/name]- The Diary of [name]Anastasia[/name]

I’m sure there I more, but I can’t think of them at the moment. [name]Love[/name] this topic!

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