I’m a huge reader, and like most of you berries, obsessed with names. My eldest is [name_m]Felix[/name_m], partly named after the protagonist in [name_m]Henry[/name_m] [name_u]James[/name_u]’ The Europeans. His new baby sisters will probably be named [name_u]Eloise[/name_u] and [name_f]Matilda[/name_f], after the books of the same names. My question is: what are the most interesting names you have come across in literature? I’m completely taken with [name_f]Vienna[/name_f], a character in F [name_m]Scott[/name_m] [name_m]Fitzgerald[/name_m]'s short story The Bowl ([name_m]Fitzgerald[/name_m] is a really good quirky namer, see: Ardiota, Axia, Caxton, Musidora, etc).
Some of my favourite/more quirky names from literature are:
[name_f]Ginevra[/name_f] (from [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] [name_f]Bronte[/name_f]'s [name_f]Villette[/name_f])
[name_u]Quincey[/name_u] and [name_f]Mina[/name_f] (from [name_m]Bram[/name_m] Stoker’s Dracula)
Hareton (from [name_f]Emily[/name_f] [name_f]Bronte[/name_f]'s Wuthering Heights)
[name_m]Sholto[/name_m] (this is a really minor character in [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] Gaskell’s [name_u]North[/name_u] and South)
[name_u]Love[/name_u] your son’s name btw!
Thank you! 
[name_m]Sholto[/name_m] is rather dashing, isn’t it?
”ntonia (My ”ntonia by [name_f]Willa[/name_f] Cather)
[name_f]Hester[/name_f] (The [name_f]Scarlet[/name_f] Letter by [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] [name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m])
[name_f]Zenobia[/name_f] nn [name_f]Zeena[/name_f] ([name_m]Ethan[/name_m] Frome by [name_f]Edith[/name_f] [name_m]Wharton[/name_m])
Here are some favourites!
[name_f]Antigone[/name_f] (from Greek Mythology/the play by Sophocles)- this has always been a major gp!
[name_f]Cosette[/name_f] & [name_f]Eponine[/name_f] (from [name_u]Les[/name_u] Misérables by [name_m]Victor[/name_m] [name_m]Hugo[/name_m])
[name_u]Beau[/name_u] & [name_f]Bonnie[/name_f] (from Gone With the Wind by [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] [name_m]Mitchell[/name_m])
[name_f]Amaryllis[/name_f] (from Eclogues by [name_m]Virgil[/name_m])
[name_f]Esmeralda[/name_f] (from the Hunchback of Notre Dame by [name_m]Victor[/name_m] [name_m]Hugo[/name_m])
[name_m]Beowulf[/name_m]
[name_u]Dorian[/name_u] (from The Picture of [name_u]Dorian[/name_u] [name_u]Gray[/name_u] by [name_m]Oscar[/name_m] Wilde- though I don’t think this would be the best role model to name a child after)
I also love a lot of names used by Dickens and [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m], and I find names from Arthurian romances to be so ethereal (i.e Pellinore, [name_m]Lancelot[/name_m], [name_f]Guinevere[/name_f] etc).
[name_f]Shasta[/name_f] (g): The Crying of Lot 49 by [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] Pynchon (I’ve never read The Horse and His Boy)
[name_m]Ziggy[/name_m] and Amabella: Big [name_m]Little[/name_m] Lies by [name_f]Liane[/name_f] Moriarty
[name_u]Christie[/name_u] (b), Piquette “Pique”, [name_u]Jules[/name_u] (sounds like “jule”)… basically every name in: The Diviners by [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] [name_u]Laurence[/name_u]
Some of my favourites:
[name_f]Lisbeth[/name_f] (Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg [name_m]Larsson[/name_m])
Athos and [name_m]Aramis[/name_m] (The Three Musketeers, [name_m]Alexandre[/name_m] [name_m]Dumas[/name_m])
[name_f]Marya[/name_f] (Koschei the Deathless, Russian fairytale)
[name_f]Sansa[/name_f], [name_f]Asha[/name_f], Oberyn (A Song of Ice and [name_m]Fire[/name_m], [name_m]George[/name_m] RR [name_m]Martin[/name_m])
Galadriel (LOTR, JRR Tolkien
[name_m]Odin[/name_m] (Norse mythology)
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] ([name_m]King[/name_m] Lear, [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m])
[name_f]Anthea[/name_f], [name_u]Orion[/name_u], [name_f]Gaia[/name_f], [name_f]Thalia[/name_f] (Greek mythology)
I thought the dairymaids’ names in [name_f]Tess[/name_f] of the d’Urbevilles were brilliant: [name_u]Marian[/name_u], Izz, Retty, and of course [name_f]Tess[/name_f]. I just love to wonder what Izz and Retty’s real names could have been - Izott and [name_f]Harriet[/name_f]?
I think it’s brilliant that authors can preserve the names of their time that would otherwise have fallen out of use… my personal favourite is [name_f]Hephzibah[/name_f] known as [name_f]Eppie[/name_f] in [name_m]Silas[/name_m] Marner 
Another interesting one is [name_f]Lilias[/name_f], [name_m]Colin[/name_m]'s mother in The [name_f]Secret[/name_f] Garden. For such a flower-like name, she’s very underused today.
I always liked Haydée from The [name_m]Count[/name_m] of [name_m]Monte[/name_m] Cristo. Most of my other favorites are totally crazy ones from early modern theatre: things like Taer, [name_f]Aliena[/name_f], [name_f]Bel[/name_f]-[name_f]Imperia[/name_f]. I was over the moon when I found Célimène in my family tree.
Pretty much the whole character list from A Song of Ice and [name_m]Fire[/name_m] by [name_m]George[/name_m] R. R. [name_m]Martin[/name_m]. [name_f]Sansa[/name_f], [name_f]Daenerys[/name_f], Cersei, [name_u]Arya[/name_u], Brienne, Oberyn, Ellaria, [name_f]Melisandre[/name_f].
From the series Of Crowns and [name_f]Glory[/name_f] by [name_u]Morgan[/name_u] [name_u]Rice[/name_u] -
[name_m]Thanos[/name_m] (m), [name_f]Akila[/name_f] (m) & [name_f]Ceres[/name_f] (f)
From The Creepy Hollow Series by [name_f]Rachel[/name_f] [name_u]Morgan[/name_u]
[name_m]Roark[/name_m] (m) & [name_m]Oren[/name_m] (m)
[name_f]Justine[/name_f] - from the [name_f]Alexandria[/name_f] Quartet by [name_u]Lawrence[/name_u] [name_m]Durrell[/name_m]