What’s In A Name?

I read an article recently about a growing trend to name babies from popular books, films and TV shows, such as The Great Gatsby, Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games. See the article .

This piqued my interest for two reasons; 1) I love big ticket TV shows like GoT and Boardwalk Empire etc, as well as great literature, and 2) I have a child on the way, so we’ll be needing name suggestions. I’m currently reading the first GoT book, so I’m tempted to suggest some of the names for the future Sharp.

Several of the names used in The Hunger Games are ancient Roman names, like Octavia, Seneca and Flavius, which also appeared in the Harry Potter books. These might start to make appearances in the near future too.

According to the article some of the recent hot names are;

Arya – the spikey daughter of one of the rulers in Game of Thrones.

I like this name, but I suspect a little of this is bourne from the fact I love her character in the books/series.
Gatsby – the main character from the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. This is bound to see a jump in its use when the Leonardo DiCaprio film of the book comes out later this year. Gatsby Sharp – sounds too grandiose to me.
Theon – This is another GoT name that is seeing some action for newly-borns apparently. Theon Greyjoy is an upstart heir to the throne in the books, and despite the cool-sounding name, Theon is a bit of an impetuous prig. Not something you’d want to be associated with if you were to be named after him.

Suggestions of my own;

Tyler – From the Tyler Durden character in Fight Club, one of my favourite ever films. This might have been a cool name a few years back, but there are a few Tylers around now, and they’re mostly boisterous kids with shaved heads and earings, the ones you see running around the supermarket being yelled at by their mums. So this one is off the table now. Apologies to any Tylers reading this!
Ragnar – This is an awesome Norse/Scandinavian name, but seeing as I already have a dog called Odin, I might be pushing it with Mrs Sharp. Pity.

I’ll keep an eye out for cool names, mining films, TV shows and books for suitable monikers.

Any suggestions?