Baby names and literature...books are the perfect source

Literature has long been a rich source of baby names - from Romeo and Juliet, to a current favourite Atticus from To Kill a Mockingbird.

But there are lots more literary baby names that are not as obvious, especially those from very obscure publications. However, they can provide a uniquness and stylishess to your child's name - although its wise to remember that it doesnt necessarily  mean  that the impressive-sounding name belongs to a heroic figure.

Here are a few examples:

BOYS

1. Arkady—Crime and Punishment, A Raw Youth, Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev


2. Camden – Middlemarch, George Eliot


3. Carver — Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore


4. Caspian – The Return to Narnia, C. S. Lewis


5. Cato –Henry and Cato, Iris Murdoch


6. Dunstan – Silas Marner, George Eliot


7. Golden – Jazz , Toni Morrison


8. Joss — Jamaica Inn, Daphne Du Maurier


9. Jupiter — The Gold Bug, Edgar Allan Poe


10. Lemuel – Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift; A Cool Million, Nathanael West


11. Marius — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo


12. Phileas – Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne


13. Seneca — Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis


14. Septimus – The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens; Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf


15. Victory – Jazz, Toni Morrison 

GIRLS

1.       Abra – East of Eden, John Steinbeck

2.       Adelaida – The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3.       Alia – Dune, Frank Herbert; Midnight’s Child, Salman Rushdie

4       Cosette – Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

5.       Fantine – Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

6.       Honoria –  Bleak House, Charles Dickens; Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald

7.       Malta — Bleak House, Charles Dickens

8.       Marilla –  Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery

9.   Medora –  The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

10.   Meridian – Meridian, Alice Walker

11.   Temple– Sanctuary, Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner

12.   Trillian—Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

13.   Velvet – National Velvet, Enid Bagnold

14.   Waverly – The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

15.   Zenobia – The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne; Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton