Naming your children

[brttn89]

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

[Maud Fitch]

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

[brttn89]

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

[Wintermute]

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

[Purple Rose]

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.

[Jacob]

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.

[Tralala]

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.

[Scott]

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

[brttn89]

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.

[Ant]

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.

[Fran]

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.

[ClarityJules]

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

[Dragonflytears]

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

[Daffodil]

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'.

[Bighuey]

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.