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

[Pamela]

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.

[Mary]

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

[Jenny]

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

[Juniper]

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.

[Darcia]

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?

[Kandice]

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

[Darcia]

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

[Kandice]

Or Pinto;/

[Alaina]

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.

[Christy]

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.)

[Vonney]

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.

[Kristin]

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.

[Melissa]

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.

[Brittany]

I want to name every child of mine after the Infernal Devices.. But mainly because the names are adorable. Cecily, Tessa, Will, James, Gabriel, Gideon, Charlotte, Henry... Oh dear. Oh and Sophie. Can't forget Sophie.

[D.M.]

I don't usually tell anyone, but I was named for a character out of a book made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, called To Catch a Thief. The book, same name, was a 1952 novel by the not very well known David Dodge.

I usually don't tell anybody because the character was a jewel thief. Thanks Mom and Dad?