Happy Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we’re talking about fictional character names that you would like to name a child, pet, or car.
We like to name our family members after authors. One of our cats is named for Isabel Allende – when we’re mad at her it turns into Isabella, a la Queen Isabella of Castile. Our daughter is named after one of my favorite authors. It is a short, four-letter name that we always thought was easy to spell and pronounce. Little did I realize how many variations could be made of her supposedly simple name!
If we ever had any more children (we won’t), here are ten names that will be equally hard for future generations of teachers to work out during the first week of school. I find them all beautiful and unique! One name on the list is actually from a book I haven’t read yet, but I have heard about it so much, and I love the name, so onto the list it goes!
Kerewin
From The Bone People by Keri Hulme (1984 Booker Prize winner).
Olamina
From Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. Technically, this is the main character’s last name, but I think it sounds beautiful as a first name!
Celaena
From the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. I haven’t read the series, but I love the name. Sounds a bit like Selena, which reminds me of Zelena, which is another name I happen to like.
Kell
From A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. I always love one-syllable guy names.
Laila
From A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
Katniss
From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I have thought often about naming a cat Katniss, and if it wasn’t so popular I would attach it to a child, too!
Zeb
From The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.
Lisbeth
From The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
Serafina
From Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty. I adore this name.
Fraser
From the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I wouldn’t name a child or pet Jamie or Claire, but I love the clan name Fraser.
I also have a few runners-up that almost made the Top Ten: Hermione from Harry Potter; Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, Olanna from Half of A Yellow Sun, and Alina from Shadow and Bone.
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