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Has anybody named their children after a favorite character from a book?

No, but I've seen an awful lot of Hermiones in the Births column.....

Im sure there is alot of Twilight names nowadays. One of my friends named her kids After Kathren Scarlett O'Hare!

I don't yet have any children, but I'll be damned if one of them isn't named Eddard Stark!

Hi, I'm new and after scanning the various topics, I thought this was the easiest for me to make my first post on this forum.

Not after a book but I named my daughter Claire after the song by Gilbert O'Sullivan. She's now 20.

brttn89 wrote:Im sure there is alot of Twilight names nowadays. One of my friends named her kids After Kathren Scarlett O'Hare!

I'm not sure if I was named off Twilight, but my name is Jacob (obviously). And the kids at the school never forget to mention it, haha.

Yep, sorta. My son's name is Christopher Ryan, after Christopher Robin and his dad's best friend, Brian. Everybody calls him Budge, though...we're big on nicknames in my family.

We named our son Tristen which was partially inspired by characters from Legends of the Fall and Tristan & Isolde.

Scott wrote:We named our son Tristen which was partially inspired by characters from Legends of the Fall and Tristan & Isolde.

If that is him in the picture then he is very very adorable!!!!!!!!
I don't have kids either but, if I did, I would definitly have a son named after Rhett Butler, and a daughter named after Amelia Earhart.

Purple Rose wrote:Hi, I'm new and after scanning the various topics, I thought this was the easiest for me to make my first post on this forum.

Not after a book but I named my daughter Claire after the song by Gilbert O'Sullivan. She's now 20.

Hi Purple Rose, nice song and name, I can still picture Gilbert O'Sullivan sitting at the piano singing that one...wierd dress sense though if I remember right.

I once worked with a guy who named his daughter after Charlotte ... the daughter of James Onedin in The Onedin Line if anyone remembers that BBC drama.
I have a niece named Emma but I don't think she's named after the book but as her surname is quite long they needed a short first name!
I know there were loads of Sonya's & Natacha's some years ago when War & Peace was televised.

I quite like Tatyana from Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin.
The movie was stunning. Ralph Fiennes' sister did the cinematography and it is beautiful.

Well, not named from a character in a book, but I did name my son Aaron after Elvis Aaron Presly =)

I got chatting to a mum with kids at the grocery store and she called out to her daughter "Ayla!". I was so gobsmacked that I told her that was a character in one of my favourite books and she nodded wildly and said "YES! Clan of the Cave Bear!" I nearly dropped my eggs. I did consider it for my own children very briefly - but with the Aussie accent and the tendency to add 'ay... or hey' to the end of each sentence it was quickly banished. I ended up with Gracie for one of my girls as I fell in love with the little Aboriginal girl from 'Rabbit Proof Fence'.

I cant think of anyone who was named after a book character, but my kids had a guinea pig they named Sam after the song Sam Hall. I used to sing it to them, they loved that song.