I once with a girl who named her son "Prince Charming" as a first name! I thought she was joking at first....but she was serious. They called him PC for short.

My daughter's first name is Peyton, but not from "Peyton Place," which I've never read or seen. We just loved the name! However, her middle name is Elizabeth (for Elizabeth Bennett, who was both a spit-fire with a sense of humor and, luckily, had a beautiful name).

My brother named his dog Huxley, after the auther Aldous.

Love that name 'Cypress'. I know someone or several someones who named their little boys 'Rhett'. My nephew and wife named their 4th son, 'Wyatt', and their daughter 'Olivia'. I love to meet people who have names you don't often hear.

A couple I knew whos last name was Hill named their daughter Cypress...

A highfive to anyone who gets that reference.

I wish I had been named after a book character. Charlie Brown, even. I was named after Christie Brinkley because my dad thought she was hot (and also didn't remember her name was spelled with an ie instead of a y; thank God.)

Alaina : I loved that book! That's nice beeing named after a book character. I would do that if I have a child someday :)

I am named after a character in a book, a romance novel actually. Alaina in Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen Woodiwiss. I read it, liked it and would read it again. I would also name my child after a character in a book. I like the names that are less common.

Or Pinto;/

LOL! Could have been worse. Just think if he had a thing for the Camaro Z28!

My brother named his daughter Shelby, after...A CAR!!!!

My mother got my first name from a novel she was reading while pregnant. I was the only Darcia in school or anywhere else for a very long time. Darcy has since become more common but Darcia is still rare.

If my mom hadn't read that book, I would have been called Tracy. I wonder if my personality would have been different. Does anyone think names have any effect on personality?

Vanessa wrote: "When I was pregnant with my daughter (and before we knew she was a girl) we thought of Aldous (after Mr. Huxley) as a boy's name."

Hi Vanessa.

I have friends who named their daughter Huxley. They had chosen the name to use for either a daughter or a son.

My daugter's name is Tara, and I got it from Gone With the Wind. I thought Scarlett was too girlie.

I named my daughter Elizabeth after Beth in Little Women. She always laughs that I named her after the character that died so she says she will tell everyone that she was named after Elizabeth Bennett.

Mary

One of my best friends named her first baby...a son, Dantes....after Edmund Dantes in "The Count of Monte Cristo" which is one of our favorite novels.....

That same year, I named my first baby...a daughter (the first-born of identical twins) Antonia....after the little girl in Willa Cather's "My Antonia." One of my all-time favorite books. We also pronounce it the way it is intended to be pronounced in the novel....ann-toe-NEE-yah....with the accent on the 3rd syllable.

We named the other twin Bernadette.

Antonia and Bernadette.

Rachel wrote: "My husband met a man in Kenya called "Oos-mael." Turns out his parents got the name from an envelope: U.S. Mail.
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I'm sorry, but for some reason I think this is hilarious!

On a personal note, my sister (7 yrs. older than I) named me Laura after Laura Ingalls Wilder.


Laura in HI

I wasn't actually named after Leslie from Bridge to Terabithia, but when my brother was born my parents named him Jesse, and my mom admits that the book had some influence on that decision. She can't remember if she read the book before or after I was born, though.

I named my cat Jane after Jane Austen.

I named my son after Griffin of Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock. I read the series the year before I became pregnant and once pregnant, I dreamt I would have a boy. For awhile, when he first learned how to write, my son would write me notes and letters, like character for which he was named. He doesn't anymore because he's 14 and writing letters to your mom is like kissing or hugging her in public - unthinkable!

My husband met a man in Kenya called "Oos-mael." Turns out his parents got the name from an envelope: U.S. Mail.

Abbie K. wrote: "There used to be a car race from London to Brighton before WWII and the wining car one year had the name of "Genevieve". "

That's not bad. I went to school with a girl named Chevelle.

Could have been Edsel or Humvee...ewww yucky hahahaha

Oh, well that's not bad at all! I was thinking it was going to be Gremlin. ;) Just kidding. LOL

There used to be a car race from London to Brighton before WWII and the wining car one year had the name of "Genevieve".

Haha!

Becky wrote: "Which car? :)"

Not Volkswagon I hope!

Which car? :)

Only if you consider The Bible a book. My mother named me after David's wife because she looked it up and it meant "my father's joy". It could be worse, she named my sister after a car. LoL

My sister has an Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Peter (Peter Pan), and an Oliver (Oliver Twist), and her oldest boy, Maxwell, has the middle name Atticus (To Kill A Mockingbird). She is expecting baby #5 this year. I wonder what name she will come up with.

My daughter's name is Raegan, which is a twist on Regan from King Lear. I love the name, but i hope my daughter will be nicer than Regan was.

I named my kitten Arya from Eragon.

:P

I was named after a famous doctor (both my parents are doctors).

:D

Well, I don't know anyone personally who was named after a character/author. However, the author Elizabeth Aston was named after Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, because her parents were Jane Austen fans.

Many of my favourite baby names come from characters in books.

No, but I have named my long-haired dapple daschund "Dibbuns" after the animals in the Redwall Abbey Series.Before Dibbuns we had a long-haired daschund for 16 years. She died in 2006 after a short bout with cancer. During this time I read several Redwall books and the antics of the little animals called Dibbuns kept me smiling---so, I thought Dibbuns would be a perfect name for my new doxie.

A friend named her daughter Dagny after the woman in Ayn Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED. I liked the name and the daughter is a doll!

I loved reading Langston Hughes in high school, so I thought that would be a great name for a son. Then I read "The Solace of Leaving Early" and for the past 4-5 years I've been hoping to have a daughter someday to name Langston!

Hi Grace!! Good one!! I loved that book - my favorite of the Vampire series!

I named a cat Khayman from Queen of the Damned.

My boss, Ayla, after the character in The Clan of the Cave Bear.

Manday, that is pretty cool that your sister was named after the Lord of the Rings Tree of Life...

My sister's name is Laurelyn, after the tree of life in the Lord of the Rings mythology (spelled Lorelin in the book).

I forgot all about the characters from Watership Down. I used to love that book.

Sherry - I'm afraid to admit (if you don't already know) that I named the kitten Bella because of Twilight although she is beautiful too! :) I got kidded about it at the rescue group.

Mel, I love the name Fiver, as Watership Down is one of my favorite all time reads.

Huckleberry w/be cute for a dog! Never thought of that one!

If pets count I have:
Dogs:
Max (Where the Wild Things Are)
Pippi (Longstocking of course)
Cats:
Fiver (Watership Down)
Darcy (Mr. Darcy to you)

Future dog names under consideration:
Huckleberry
Sawyer (not sure I like it as well now with the Lost connotation)
Noddy (love this but think I would have to spend a lot of time explaining Enid Blyton to people in the park)
Dickon (Secret Garden - like everything but the short form).

Mel

My mother loves John Galsworthy- I couldn't get into him.

Yes, I do know someone - my mom! She named me Jocelyn, after the book titled Jocelyn, by John Galsworthy. I have the book, haven't read it. Lame, I know... I should read that ASAP. I think I tried to as a teen, and it just totally didn't get me interested, so I never picked it up again. Anyway, that book isn't even listed here on GR! But you can find info on Galsworthy on wikipedia (I'd link but am html-challenged).

Bella = Beautiful in Italian :)

I can't remember the movie...i think it was called Double Jeopardy (?). Anyway, the kid's name was Mattie and I fell in love w/it :)

Sherry - I say yes about your dog, so let's hear it. On that same note, I just rescued a kitten on Saturday and named her Bella!

I have a friend named Cressida, after the character in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I named my dog after a character in a movie...does that count?

yeah animals don't come back and get you for the names you give them. But I'll bet there are few Bambis out there who aren't happy with their mothers.

Although my children are named after family members, I had more literary freedom when naming pets...
I once had a male black lab named Sawyer, a yellow female lab named Becky, and a male cat at the same time named Huckleberry. (They have all died. :( )
I currently own another male black lab named Atticus and a goofy, gray, male kitten named Dill.

Becky wrote: "Who would name their child VAGINA?? Oh my goodness. That's terrible! Poor kid is in for a really, really tough life. My guess is that she's waiting at the courthouse on her 18th birthday to get THA..."

Autumn (and this thread) reminds me of my favourite story as a kid 'Princess September'. For a while my doll was called that but I got over wanting give that name to my child .

I had some friends name their son after a comic book character. He is Damian.