What is a good literary name for my 2nd child?

Question

My 1st child's name is Atticus, from To Kill A Mockingbird.

Answer 1

Candide or Cunégonde from Candide or Voltaire
Julien from the Red and the Black
Dante, Beatice, or Virgil from the Divine Comedy
Estragon or Vladimir from Waiting for Godot
Cyrano or Roxane from Cyrano de Bergerac
d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis from the three Musketeers
Gatsby or Daisy from the Great Gatsby
Winston from 1984
Cosimo or Lorenzo after the Medici family who valued the arts
or perhaps the author of the Prince himself, Machiavelli!

Have fun and good luck!

Answer 2

For a girl, I have always loved: Evangeline, Bronwen, Ursula, Lidia or Lydia, Phoebe, Eowyn, Hermione (pronounced "Her-my-oh-nee"), Viola, Lillian or Lily or Lillie; Abigail, Leticia, Tess, Daphne, Alethea, Thira, Illyria or Elyria, Lyrica, Thalassa, Charlotte, Cora or Kore, Lulu and Ruby. I think I should have named my daughter Tallulah instead of Sophia Angelina Rose, I think...Fern, Isis, Indira, Ishtar, Sapphire, Pearl, Diamond, Opal, Alia, Scheherazade, Roxanne or Rahokshannah, Isabella, Gweneth; Thais or Aida; Victoria

For a boy: Adam; Heath; Soren, Seth, Jude or Judah, Liam (that's my son's name), Alexander, Julian, Lucien, Ashton, James, Jonah, Johann (-es), Kirk, Nathaniel, Thomas, Benjamin, Niko or Nicholas, Levi, Harrison, Limahl, George, Charles, Henry, John David or Henry David, Leaf or Lief, River, Stone, there are so many others...Walden or Walder, Haven, Ishmael, Isaiah, Damien or Demian, Israel, Ezra, Caleb, William,

Answer 3

Ginny (harr potter)
Melanie (gone with the wind)
Charlotte(charlottes web)
percival
wulfric
brian
Jonas (the giver)
Eugenides (the thief)
Brom (eragon)
Elanor (Lord of the Rings)
Honour (Beauty by Robin Mckinley)
Angeline (Artemis Fowl)
Dorothy (the wizard of Oz)
Kennedy
Verne (jules verne)
Filius Fogg
Manette
Darnay
Lucie
(all from A Tale of Two Cities)

Answer 4

Depends on what period of literature you are seeking. Shakespeare?

I prefer Ancient Greece names like Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato.

Like that other guy said, probably best to use a name like this as a middle name. When the older kids find out these were all gay people, and if they don't like gay people, then they might get made fun of.

Answer 5

How about any of these names? Marcus,Dante, Tess, Athena,Juliet, Roman , Jonathan, Nimue ( she was Merlin's girlfriend), Beatrice, Artemis, Nomi, Connor,Duncan, Annan (it's a boys name and a loch in Scotland), Niall, Seamus,Luke,Bronte, Julian, Aubrey and Nicholas.

Answer 6

Boy, Othello, Girl Desdemona.

Answer 7

Besides some of the wonderful names already given (Dorian, Scarlett, Rhett, Sydney)...hmmm...
Girl - Emma (Emma - Jane Austen), Mina (Dracula - Bram Stoker), Phoebe (Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger)
Boy - Okay, I have to warn you, I'll be bad at this one. Right now, all I can think of are Adam from East of Eden (John Steinbeck) and Holden (Catcher, again)... unless you wouldn't mind sticking with Mockingbird, & using Jeremy/Jem (same with girls' names - Jean Louise or Scout)

Answer 8

For a girl: Cosette, Fantine, or Eponine

For a boy: Javert, Gavroche, or Marius

All characters from Les Misérables
(or Victor, Hugo -- the author)

Answer 9

it really depends on what books and characters you yourself love.

whatever you do, though, be sure to check in with the baby name voyager to see if the name you like is a current trend. it would seem that atticus is really popular this year:

http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Answer 10

Have pity on your second child. Give him-her a first name that will not embarass him-her in later life. Then go wild, if you must, with the middle name. Your child can then choose between names on growing older. One gracious custom is to give a child a non-embarassing first name and a middle name that is the mother's maiden name.

A famous chemistry professor whom I used to know is M. Bonner Denton. Bonner is his mother's maiden name. I don't remember if I ever knew what "M." stands for. I always addressed him as Bonner, and he glowed.