349+ Baby Names Writing (BEST Ideas for Creative Parents!)

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Choosing a baby name is an important and exciting decision for parents-to-be. One source of inspiration that often goes overlooked is literature. Drawing from the world of writing and literary works can provide a unique and meaningful foundation for your child’s name. From classic novels to contemporary pieces, the options are boundless! In this article, we will explore some baby names that have been influenced by authors, story elements, and the beauty of the written word.

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As an aspiring or established writer yourself, you may want to consider naming your baby after a beloved author or character. This not only pays homage to the world of literature, but also instills a sense of imagination and creativity in your child. By taking a closer look at some well-known names from literary works, you can find the perfect name that reflects your passion for the art of storytelling.

Here are some baby name ideas inspired by literature and writing:

  1. Alice
  2. Artemis
  3. Atlas
  4. Beatrice
  5. Diana
  6. Epic
  7. Gaia
  8. Hera
  9. Kyrie
  10. Legend
  11. Lyric
  12. Orion
  13. Phoebe
  14. Poet
  15. Rhea
  16. Selene
  17. Story
  18. Teagan
  19. Theia
  20. Vesta

While choosing a baby name should be a heartfelt decision, using these ideas as a starting point can spark even more inspiration for literary-inspired names. Remember to make it personal and let the love for literature guide you in this beautiful journey of naming your baby.

Best Names

1-25 Best Names

Here are the top 25 literary baby names for your little one, inspired by both characters and authors:

  1. Alice (from Alice in Wonderland)
  2. Atticus (from To Kill a Mockingbird)
  3. Austen (after Jane Austen)
  4. Beckett (after Samuel Beckett)
  5. Bronte (after Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë)
  6. Caspian (from The Chronicles of Narnia)
  7. Darcy (from Pride and Prejudice)
  8. Dorian (from The Picture of Dorian Gray)
  9. Edgar (after Edgar Allan Poe)
  10. Elinor (from Sense and Sensibility)
  11. Eloise (from Eloise at the Plaza)
  12. Fitzgerald (after F. Scott Fitzgerald)
  13. Gatsby (from The Great Gatsby)
  14. Heathcliff (from Wuthering Heights)
  15. Hermione (from Harry Potter)
  16. Holden (from The Catcher in the Rye)
  17. Jane (after Jane Austen)
  18. Louisa (after Louisa May Alcott)
  19. Matilda (from Matilda)
  20. Oscar (after Oscar Wilde)
  21. Scarlett (from Gone with the Wind)
  22. Silas (from Silas Marner)
  23. Tennyson (after Alfred Lord Tennyson)
  24. Truman (after Truman Capote)
  25. Wilder (after Laura Ingalls Wilder)

26-50 Best Names

Here’s another set of 25 fantastic literary baby names for your precious little one:

  1. Aeneas (from The Aeneid)
  2. Alcott (after Louisa May Alcott)
  3. Blake (after William Blake)
  4. Bram (after Bram Stoker)
  5. Cairo (after The Maltese Falcon)
  6. Cordelia (from King Lear)
  7. Desdemona (from Othello)
  8. Dulcinea (from Don Quixote)
  9. Eudora (after Eudora Welty)
  10. Flannery (after Flannery O’Connor)
  11. Galadriel (from Lord of the Rings)
  12. Hemmingway (after Ernest Hemingway)
  13. Imogen (

Good Names

1-25 Good Names

Here is a list of 25 writing-inspired baby names for you to consider:

  1. Alice – from Alice in Wonderland
  2. Celie – from The Color Purple
  3. Eowyn – from The Lord of the Rings
  4. Elizabeth – from Pride and Prejudice
  5. Darcy – from Pride and Prejudice
  6. Anne – from Persuasion
  7. Emma – from Emma
  8. Jane – from Jane Eyre
  9. Heathcliff – from Wuthering Heights
  10. Scarlett – from Gone with the Wind
  11. Aurora – from Sleeping Beauty
  12. Ella – from Cinderella
  13. Matilda – from Matilda
  14. Lyric – related to poetry and song
  15. Harmony – related to musical order and balance
  16. Sonnet – a poem of 14 lines
  17. Fable – a short story with a moral
  18. Sage – meaning wise
  19. Joy – a feeling of great happiness
  20. Bronte – from the Bronte sisters
  21. Milton – from John Milton, author of Paradise Lost
  22. Austen – from Jane Austen, author of Pride and Prejudice
  23. Fitzgerald – from F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby
  24. Hemingway – from Ernest Hemingway, author of The Old Man and the Sea
  25. Eliot – from T.S. Eliot, author of The Waste Land

26-50 Good Names

Here are 25 more writing-inspired baby names for your consideration:

  1. Rowling – from J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter
  2. Shelley – from Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein
  3. Orwell – from George Orwell, author of 1984
  4. Kipling – from Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book
  5. Verne – from Jules Verne, author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  6. Tennyson – from Alfred Tennyson, British poet
  7. Poe – from Edgar Allan Poe, author of The Raven
  8. Thoreau – from Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden
  9. Tolkien – from J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings
  10. Whitman – from Walt Whitman, author of Leaves of Grass
  11. Keats – from John Keats, Romantic poet
  12. Wordsworth – from William Wordsworth, British poet
  13. Byron – from Lord Byron, British poet
  14. Emerson – from Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet
  15. Angelou – from Maya Angelou, American poet and author
  16. Neruda – from Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet
  17. Plath – from Sylvia Plath, American poet and author
  18. Dickens – from Charles Dickens, author of A Tale of Two Cities
  19. Twain – from Mark Twain, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  20. Chaucer – from Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales
  21. Gatsby – from The Great Gatsby
  22. Hawthorne – from Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter
  23. Melville – from Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick
  24. Wilde – from Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray
  25. Beckett – from Samuel Beckett, author of Waiting for Godot

51-75 Good Names

Here are 25 more writing-inspired names for your consideration:

  1. Ibsen – from Henrik Ibsen, playwright of A Doll’s House
  2. Chekhov – from Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and author
  3. Oscar – from Oscar Wilde
  4. Lorca – from Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet and playwright
  5. Gibran – from Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet and author
  6. Hugo – from Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables
  7. Bronte – from Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre
  8. Cervantes – from Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote
  9. Goethe – from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author of Faust
  10. Marlowe – from Christopher Marlowe, English playwright
  11. Proust – from Marcel Proust, author of In Search of Lost Time
  12. Swift – from Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels
  13. Ezra – from Ezra Pound, American poet and critic
  14. Baudelaire – from Charles Baudelaire, French poet
  15. Voltaire – from Voltaire, French philosopher and writer
  16. Rumi – from Rumi, Persian poet
  17. Ovid – from Ovid, Roman poet
  18. Virgil – from Virgil, Roman poet
  19. Dante – from Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy
  20. Shakespeare – from William Shakespeare, playwright and poet
  21. Sophocles – from Sophocles, ancient Greek playwright
  22. Euripides – from Euripides, ancient Greek playwright
  23. Aeschylus – from Aeschylus, ancient Greek playwright
  24. Aristophanes – from Aristophanes, ancient Greek playwright
  25. Cather – from Willa Cather, American author

76-100 Good Names

Finally, here are 25 more writing-inspired names for you to consider:

  1. Faulkner – from William Faulkner, author of The Sound and the Fury
  2. Flaubert – from Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary
  3. Steinbeck – from John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath
  4. Joyce – from James Joyce, author of Ulysses
  5. Nabokov – from Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita
  6. Pynchon – from Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity’s Rainbow
  7. García Márquez – from Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude
  8. Kafka –

More Name Ideas

In this section, you’ll find a curated selection of writing-inspired baby names. We have divided them into four categories, so you can easily browse and pick your favorites.

1-25 Name Ideas

  1. Jane (from Jane Eyre)
  2. Charlotte (from Charlotte Bronte)
  3. Alice (from Alice in Wonderland)
  4. Aragon (from Lord of the Rings)
  5. Bilbo (from Lord of the Rings)
  6. Frodo (from Lord of the Rings)
  7. Gandalf (from Lord of the Rings)
  8. Oscar (from Oscar Wilde)
  9. Atticus (from To Kill a Mockingbird)
  10. Dorian (from The Picture of Dorian Gray)
  11. Emma (from Emma by Jane Austen)
  12. Fitzgerald (from F. Scott Fitzgerald)
  13. Gatsby (from The Great Gatsby)
  14. Holden (from The Catcher in the Rye)
  15. Darcy (from Pride and Prejudice)
  16. Hermione (from J.K. Rowling)
  17. Luna (from J.K. Rowling)
  18. Harry (from J.K. Rowling)
  19. Ron (from J.K. Rowling)
  20. Orwell (from George Orwell)
  21. Rosamund (from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier)
  22. Rumi (from Rumi, the poet)
  23. Sylvia (from Sylvia Plath)
  24. Virginia (from Virginia Woolf)
  25. Wilde (from Oscar Wilde)

26-50 Name Ideas

  1. Auden (from W.H. Auden)
  2. Bronte (from the Bronte Sisters)
  3. Byron (from Lord Byron)
  4. Cather (from Willa Cather)
  5. Dickens (from Charles Dickens)
  6. Eliot (from T.S. Eliot)
  7. Emerson (from Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  8. Faulkner (from William Faulkner)
  9. Harper (from Harper Lee)
  10. Ibsen (from Henrik Ibsen)
  11. Kafka (from Franz Kafka)
  12. Langston (from Langston Hughes)
  13. Marlowe (from Christopher Marlowe)
  14. Morrison (from Toni Morrison)
  15. Nabokov (from Vladimir Nabokov)
  16. Plath (from Sylvia Plath)
  17. Proust (from Marcel Proust)
  18. Rilke (from Rainer Maria Rilke)
  19. Salinger (from J.D. Salinger)
  20. Thoreau (from Henry David Thoreau)
  21. Tolkien (from J.R.R. Tolkien)
  22. Twain (from Mark Twain)
  23. Whitman (from Walt Whitman)
  24. Woolf (from Virginia Woolf)
  25. Yeats (from W.B. Yeats)

51-75 Name Ideas

  1. Amory (from This Side of Paradise)
  2. Beatrice (from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy)
  3. Bellamy (from Looking Backward)
  4. Bennet (from Pride and Prejudice)
  5. Celie (from The Color Purple)
  6. Daisymiller (from Daisy Miller)
  7. Desdemona (from Othello)
  8. Estella (from Great Expectations)
  9. Eugenia (from The Europeans)
  10. Finch (from To Kill a Mockingbird)
  11. Hart (from Bret Harte)
  12. Iago (from Othello)
  13. Idgie (from Fried Green Tomatoes)
  14. Ishmael (from Moby-Dick)
  15. Jude (from Jude the Obscure)
  16. Maisy (from Maisy)
  17. Mona (from The Da Vinci Code)
  18. Othello (from Othello)
  19. Percy (from Percy Jackson)
  20. Portia (from The Merchant of Venice)
  21. Quixote (from Don Quixote)
  22. Ripley (from the Alien series)
  23. Shug (from The Color Purple)
  24. Winslet (from Kate Winslet)
  25. Zelda (from Zelda Fitzgerald)

76-100 Name Ideas

  1. Alcott (from Louisa May Alcott)
  2. Angelou (from Maya Angelou)
  3. Austen (from Jane Austen)
  4. Beckett (from Samuel Beckett)
  5. Capote (from Truman Capote)
  6. Clementine (from Clementine von Radics)
  7. Couser (from Voltaire)
  8. Dante (from Dante Alighieri)
  9. Egdar (from Edgar Allan Poe)
  10. Frank (from Anne Frank)
  11. Gibran (from Kahlil Gibran)
  12. Hawthorne (from Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  13. Huxley (from Aldous Huxley)
  14. Joyce (from James Joyce)
  15. Keats (from John Keats)
  16. Ken (from Ken Kesey)
  17. Lorca (from Federico García Lorca)
  18. Melville (from Herman Melville)
  19. Milton (from John Milton)
  20. Neruda (from Pablo Neruda)
  21. Octavia (from Octavia Butler)
  22. Pamuk (from Orhan Pamuk)
  23. Shelley (from Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  24. Stein (from Gertrude Stein)
  25. Zola (from Émile Zola)

As you can see, there are plenty of unique and meaningful names for your baby inspired by literature!

More Name Ideas (Continued)

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1-25 Name Ideas

Here are some name ideas for you to consider:

  1. Violet
  2. Henry
  3. Ramona
  4. Ava
  5. Leo
  6. Nancy
  7. Emma
  8. Liam
  9. Sophia
  10. Noah
  11. Isabella
  12. Sebastian
  13. Mia
  14. Mason
  15. Harper
  16. Harriet
  17. Neutral Rowan
  18. Neutral Finley
  19. Charlotte
  20. Lucas
  21. Amelia
  22. Michael
  23. Ruby
  24. Aiden
  25. Sadie

26-50 Name Ideas

Here’s another set of name ideas for you:

  1. Harriet
  2. Elizabeth
  3. George
  4. Stella
  5. Benjamin
  6. Aria
  7. Daniel
  8. Poppy
  9. Samuel
  10. Olivia
  11. Jack
  12. Nancy
  13. Johnson
  14. Penelope
  15. Neutral Taylor
  16. Neutral Jessie
  17. Lyla
  18. Christopher
  19. Piper
  20. Carlos
  21. Daisy
  22. Leo
  23. Grace
  24. Warren
  25. Layla

51-75 Name Ideas

Here are even more name ideas for your consideration:

  1. Jacob
  2. Luna
  3. Logan
  4. Daisy
  5. Madeleine
  6. Neutral Jordan
  7. Freya
  8. Ezra
  9. Cora
  10. Anthony
  11. Clara
  12. Cameron
  13. Georgia
  14. Seraphina
  15. Ryan
  16. Zara
  17. Ashton
  18. Rosalie
  19. Henry
  20. Imogen
  21. Aidan
  22. Allegra
  23. Neutral Rowan
  24. Quentin
  25. Aurora

76-100 Name Ideas

Finally, here are the last 25 name ideas for you to ponder:

  1. Theodore
  2. Maya
  3. Austin
  4. Josephine
  5. Wyatt
  6. Mabel
  7. Grayson
  8. Chloe
  9. Caleb
  10. Esme
  11. Mateo
  12. Eloise
  13. Jonah
  14. Isla
  15. Ramona
  16. Samuel
  17. Matilda
  18. Ethan
  19. Hannah
  20. Xavier
  21. Neutral Riley
  22. Ivy
  23. Neutral Emerson
  24. Violet
  25. Gabriel

Tips For Brainstorming The Perfect Name

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When choosing a baby name, it’s important to pay attention to the various factors that will impact your child’s life. Here are some helpful tips to assist you in brainstorming the perfect name for your little one.

  1. Consider your family’s history and culture: Look back on your family’s heritage and cultural background for inspiration. Greek and Roman mythology offer many beautiful names based on legends, epics, and heroes. Keep an eye out for historical figures and poets who have captured your imagination.

Some popular Greek names include:

  1. Hermes
  2. Athena
  3. Persephone

Some popular Roman names include:

  1. Aurelia

  2. Flavian

  3. Octavia

  4. Think about the name’s sound and flow: The perfect name should have a pleasing rhythm and a gentle flow when spoken aloud. It’s wise to pair a short first name with a longer last name, or vice versa, for balance.

Some examples of names with good flow are:

  1. Aria Rose

  2. Felix Alexander

  3. Isabella Grace

  4. Consider the name’s associations: A name with positive connotations, like the ones inspired by beautiful flowers or heroic figures, will help your child develop a strong sense of identity and self-confidence.

Names inspired by flowers include:

  1. Violet
  2. Lily
  3. Daisy

Names inspired by heroes and legends include:

  1. Arthur

  2. Achilles

  3. Eleanor

  4. Keep it unique but not too unusual: While you may want to give your child a one-of-a-kind name, keep in mind that an overly unique name may cause difficulties when it comes to spelling and pronunciation. Strike the right balance between uniqueness and familiarity.

Try drawing inspiration from various sources and making a list of your favorite names. Remember that narrowing down your options and discussing them with your partner will surely help you find the ideal name for your baby.

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