Do you know anyone who named their child after a character in a book?

[Alice]

a family friend who is a consultant at a hospital is called Willy Notcutt.

[Mary]

I have a niece named Phronsie, from "The Five Little Peppers". I never met another Phronsie...
Her mother is quite a literary woman.

[Lisa]

Wow, Phronsie is a good one! Those are old, old books!

[Lindsey]

I plan on naming my daughters Scarlett and India after Scarlett O'Hara and India Wilkes from from Gone with the Wind. I know the characters don't like each other, but I love Scarlett O'Hara, and I love the name India. Plus Isabella after the characters from the Mummy and Twilight. And I love Pip from Dickens Great Expecations so I'll prob nickname one of my sons Pip, even if his first name isn't Phillip. My boyfriend reads a lot too, so if I have kids with him, he might come up with some literary names too.

[Lisa]

Wow, there are already six Isabel/Isabella/Bella's at the elementary school where I teach. It's going to get absolutely unreal. I for one will have to start calling somebody Izzy.

[Lindsey]

I plan on calling her Izzy. I originally just liked the name from The Mummy, where her nickname was Izzy. Then Twilight came out. My boyfriends last name is Curran, which sort of sounds like Cullen, so now it fits even more.

[Vanessa]

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.

To add to the silly name thread above, I once encountered a woman called LaSonya. And a nurse in my old OB's office told me that a former patient (who was not very well educated) wanted to call her daughter Vagina.

[Donna]

LOL thx for the laugh Vanessa. I named my daughter Marley after Bob Marley (that was my hubby's idea but it sounds nice so I agreed)

Weird name: Huck Touhy (that's just mean)

BTW my name doesn't really seem to bre too common anymore. I know bout 3 other Donna's and I don't like any of them :(

[Lindsey]

I have a cousin named Donna. No one likes her either. :-O Maybe it's the name, and you were meant to be a Stephanie or a Lorraine or a Lindsey, I hear they're nice. :)

[Fiona (Titch)]

My brother wanted to call his son Harry as my maiden name and his name is Potter lol.

[Debby]

My daughter and her husband named their daughter Selina Kyle (the character of Cat Woman). My son-in-law has been a graphic novel/comic book collector since he was a kid. I think they saw the Cat Woman film while she was pregnant and decided on the name after that. Selina will be 1 in Jan.

[Kathy]

I gave a fleeting thought to Agatha in honor of Dame Agatha Christie when my daughter was born, but thank God it was only a fleeting thought. I just loved AC's mysteries. I think my daughter would have had serious issues with me if I had named her Agatha instead of Ashley.

My mother named me after a song, but luckily it was I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen. Of course, I wish she had named me Katherine and my daughter still thought I could have done better than Ashley. I tried to convince her that not every other girl was named Ashley when I named her that.

[Tonya]

Well my oldest daughter's name is Rosaleigh butit originated from Rose which I got from Titanic. I just fell in love with the name and character. But I added the rest b/c my sister's middle name is Leigh and it seemed to fit.

Also, my husband just loved "Lestat" from the Vampire Chronicles and he was dead set on naming his son Noah Lestat so God was definitely looking out for me when he gave us 3 girls. LOL
He did, however, win out in one aspect because our middle daughter's first name is Phoenix after the bird from Mythology. It was his idea but I agreed because it was different and sounds neat. She wavers between loving it because it's so different and hating it for the same reason. And she's only 6 so it's bound to get worse.

[Maria]

Sarah, i just saw your Jack/Sawyer post from last month. that's is just too cool!

my son has a relatively basic name (michael) but if my sister has a girl in February, she'll be named Cadence. i know my sister got that from a book, i couldn't tell you which one.

very cool topic!

[Becky]

I am named after "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" or so my mother tells me.

If I have a daughter, she will be named Lily after Harry's mother.

If I have a boy, Jackson (Jack + Jason) from The Talisman by Stephen King. I'd probably call him Jack though, as a kind of "shout out" to Jack Torrance from The Shining. ;)

[Mary]

I named my dog Scout ....I know it doesn't count but she acts human.

[Jonathan]

We have a friend named Daisy Miller. Appropriately enough, she's a professor of American literature.

And, to build on Mary's dog post, our dog is named Charley (as in Steinbeck's "Travels With....")

[Mari Anne]

My son is named Aidan (my mother first suggested it) and I knew about the Aidan in Sex in the City but didn't give it a second thought. Maybe I should have because as much as I love the name there are TONS of them out there now.
We were in a tiny MOPS group in Washington state with only about seven members and there were three Aidans between us!

I named one previous cat Scarlett and one Katy both after Katy Scarlett O'Hara and had fully intended on naming a future daughter Katy but now that I used it on the cat I think it's run its course.

[Mir]

My friend's sister is named "Shamin" after a character in a romance novel her mother read (don't recall which one). Kinda pretty, but a bit odd when the other kids are all named really standard names (Julie, Erin, Michael).

[Petra X]

The name Wendy was thought up by J.M. Barrie and used for the first time in his book Peter Pan.

[Beth F]

I’ve lost contact with them, but I used to know a couple who named their daughter Lily after Lily Potter, Harry’s mother.

It’s a pretty name but not so bizarre that the little girl will detest it when she gets older. Just imagine Bellatrix or Minerva or Narcissa. Those would be tough ones to live down. Or up to. Depends on how you look at it!!

[Tonya]

I have a friend who named her daughter Abagail Terabithia because that is her favorite book. Pretty but not very common. Also...they named their other daughter Isabella, but they call her Ella after a Cinderella story.

Kathy~Also there is a little girl that attends school with my children named Agatha Cristy Wilkes. I don't know them so I don't know if they intentionally named her after the author or what. But I thought it was interesting to say the least! :)

[Alisha Marie]

I don't have any kids, when I do, I want to name my daughter Emmeline, which I got from The House at Riverton. I immediately liked the name when I read it.

I know that my sister was named after a character in a spanish soap opera. Her name is Natasha. It wasn't common then, but it's actually starting to be common now (at least where I live). I also knew a woman who named her son Damian, now I'm not sure if it's after "The Omen" or not, but it's creepy, nonetheless. The kid's a sweetie pie, don't get me wrong. But imagine, when your kid's a newborn and you're thinking "Hmmm, what should I name him?" thinking "Damian" is like jinxing the hell out of it for God sake!

[Lindsey]

I want to name my son Damien sooooo bad, but Ian has completely vetoed it. It's a beautiful name. Ian think that since he's destined to have the Anti-Christ for a child anyway, he's not going to guarantee it by naming him Damien.

[Jon]

I almost named my daughter Menolly or Lorelei. She would have liked either of those. Instead I named her Rachelle Gwendolynne and it was the 4th grade before she could correctly spell/write her middle name. :)

Ah, the things we do to our kids as parents.

[Brad]

Heather (one of many) wrote: "I have a student whose parents' favorite novel is To Kill A Mockingbird. So my student's middle name is Scout and her brother's middle name is Atticus. Both children go by their middle names."

My wife is pregnant at the moment and if it's a girl her name is Gwendolyn Scout (I am pretty sure Erika's going to call her Scout all the time).

Our 4 year old daughter is named Bronte Woolf, and our son is named Milos Ernest Cesar (the Ernest is partially for Hemingway).

Of course, if my wife has triplet boys we've agreed to name them Athos, Porthos and Aramis.

[Becky]

Alisha and Lindsey-- I see nothing wrong with the name Damian... If you're a fan of the Exorcist that is. In that one, Damian Karras was the person trying to get rid of the demon, and isn't evil himself. :)

Brad -- I hope you have triplets. And I love the other names you've chosen too.

Fiona -- I can totally see you having a Luna-esque daughter! ;)

[Lindsey]

Becky, I'm gonna use that as an excuse to name my son Damien. Then it'll be a 50-50 chance. He'll either be the Anti-Christ, or save people from the devil. I like my odds.

Also. Brad, I am definately naming one of my sons Aramis. Without a doubt. I will pay whoever my baby's father is a million dollars if I have to, but I will name my son Aramis.

[Melissa]

Well, I don't have kids, so I'll add my dog names to the post!

Our female dog is named Dagny - after Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged.

And we've had foster dogs in the past whom we have named Emmeline (previously mentioned in this thread), and then after the author, Aleister (Crowley).

I'll probably never have kids, so I get all my kicks from naming my dogs. We've gone all the routes: gods, philosophers, movie characters, musicians, book characters...

[Becky]

There you go Lindsey! Then you'll just have to take your chances... ;)

Melissa, one of my cats is named after Alfalfa from The Little Rascals. He had the Alfalfa hair (he's white with black cow spots, and on his head he's got black hair with a perfect part down the middle) and was so frisky as a kitten that the name just fit. We call him Alfie for short, but since we got a new kitten, he's turned into such an old man that we now call him Sir Alfred or Lord Alfred (in a proper British accent).

[Brad]

Becky wrote: "I hope you have triplets. And I love the other names you've chosen too...."

Thanks, Becky. I just hope we haven't doomed our children to unhappiness with all the depressed authors we've named the first two after.

Lindsey wrote: "Brad, I am definitely naming one of my sons Aramis. Without a doubt. I will pay whoever my baby's father is a million dollars if I have to, but I will name my son Aramis...."

Ummmm...I'll just tell my wife I am starting the divorce proceedings now ;)

You must be a huge fan of the Musketeers. What draws you specifically to Aramis?

[Alisha Marie]

You know what Lindsey, I say go for it! The kid that I know is such a sweetie that he has to be the saving-people-from-demons type of Damien. Who knows? Maybe you will get this type of Damien and not the throw-my-mom-off-the-stairs-anti-christ type of Damien.

[Alisha Marie]

Fiona's right. It just means that it could be a possibility

[Becky]

I used to know a Damian. He was a punk rock/skater type with tattoos EVERYWHERE who frightened everyone over 40 and made little kids cross the street to get away from him, but he was one of the sweetest guys you'd ever want to meet.

Sadly, most people couldn't get past his exterior. :(

[Jeanne]

Hi,

I named one daughter Anna (pronounced 'Ahna')because I loved Anna Karenina and I named one Jordan because I loved The Great Gatsby and 'Jordan' went with our last name, similar to Jordan Baker. This was in 1981 when there were no other girl Jordans. Now I see quite a few little Jordan girls.
One of my students is named Milo, after the boy in 'The Phantom Tollbooth'.

[Lindsey]

Brad, I'm a big fan of two of them, Athos and Aramis. Porthos is just like a big silly goon to me. But Athos I like because he tries to be a good man throughout each of the novels, and only wants a family and to find love. I like Aramis because he seems like the most true of them. He's the most honest and true to himself of all of them. He doesn't really hide anything, and tries to be a friend to all of them at all times. I also like the way he handled Milady's execution. For some reason, whenever I read the book, that part always chokes me up.

I also like that both of them are sort of gentle and kind, esp when compared to Porthos and D'artagnan. I just like them.

[Annette]

A friend from high school planned her daughter's name for years based on a book we both read about a unicorn. The name: Ariel. She had her daughter about a month after Disney released The Little Mermaid so it wasn't nearly as different as she'd hoped it would be!

If my first born had been a boy, he'd have been named Garion (from David Eddings' The Belgariad series). Instead, I have a Kylie (girl).

[Kandice]

My husband and I told our oldest son he could name our youngest if it turned out to be a girl, which he was depserately hoping for. He has a younger brother and was NOT impressed. He chose Darby Shaw, from the Pelican Brief by John Grisham. We changed the Shaw to Shea because my husband is from Queens, but I still think its beautiful. (yes, he ended up with a baby sister, born the day after his birthday no less! He still refers to her as his present)

[Becky]

You let your son name your baby? That's daring! How old is your son?

[Kandice]

15, but please, keep in mind, we lost a few on the way and he so, so, so badly wanted a sister! I mean, he would literally go to church with his grandma and pray. ( I am NOT Catholic, she is) Also, it was only if she happened to be a girl. Don't you think he made a lovely choice? It could have been Togepi or something!!!! :)

[Becky]

Ahh, OK. I was thinking that you were going to say he was 7! That's nice that he was so involved with his little sister right off the bat, I know of a ton of 15 year olds who could care less about their siblings.

He did choose a very pretty name, and the fact that it is from a popular novel makes it twice as appealing... I'm glad that it all worked out for you, as it seems that everyone got their wish! :)

[Kandice]

Thank you ;)

[Jeanne]

I have friends who let their 4-year-old son choose the name for his baby brother. He chose 'Colin' from 'The Secret Garden'. The 4-year-old had been read to thousands of hours so it was only natural that he chose a name from a story that he loved.

[Kandice]

Jeanne wrote: "I have friends who let their 4-year-old son choose the name for his baby brother. He chose 'Colin' from 'The Secret Garden'. The 4-year-old had been read to thousands of hours so it was only natu..."

I read out loud the entire time I was nursing my children. Not children's stories either. I read whatever I happened to be reading at the time. I figured it was my voice and being exposed to the book, not the content, that mattered. My husband thought I was crazy, but all of my children could read by 4 and are all still voracious readers! I think it worked.

[Jeanne]

Of course it worked. Your babies picked up the sounds and rhythms of our language long before they could speak. A study I have read said that the baby is doing this intensely between the ages of 5 and 8 months, but I think it begins earlier and continues past 8 months. Maybe the study only covered 5 to 8 month old babies. LOL!!

[Sue]

My niece named her son Raiden after a comic book character!

[Cindy]

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.

To add to the silly name thread above, I once encountered a woman ..."

I once met a little girl named Vagina. I was sitting in a waiting room at the hospital and she came over to stare at me so I asked her what her name was. I actually made her repeat it because I thought I had heard her wrong. She was with her aunt who quickly told me, "We call her Ginny." What on earth was her mother thinking?

[Kandice]

There was a girl in my elementary school named Pancake. Her sister was Peaches. Perhaps during childbirth she experienced temporary insanity, regretted her decision, then did it again to cover up?

[Sue]

I actually know someone whose name is Autumn and you guessed it, her sister is Summer!

[Becky]

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 THAT changed.

Pancake and Peaches is embarrassing, but not as bad as Vagina. That's like naming your kid Chlamydia or Syphilis. Wow...

My cousin's name is Autumn. She was supposed to be a boy, (her mother didn't believe the ultrasounds apparently) so when she was born my aunt didn't have any girl names picked out. Since she was born on the first day of Autumn, that's what they named her. Could have been worse, she was also born on the first day of Virgo. ;)