Your favorite character names (best, short story, great, novel)
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I just read a book that my sister gave me where the characters' names drove me crazy. It was set in the present day, but all the characters had names like Cornelia and Viviana and Hayes and Mateo. I kept thinking, "does the author really not know anyone named Mike or Sarah?"
If I ever write a romance novel, I know exactly where I'd go to find character names---the gazetteer of North Dakota. There are dozens of combinations that can be made from the names of county seats coupled with their respective county A few great women's names, like Bowbells Burke, Rolla Rollette, Medora Billings, Amidon Slope and Ellendale Dickey. Dozens of wonderful men's names, ranging through Fargo Cass, Stanley Mountrail, Fessenden Wells, and Steele Kidder. No other state comes anywhere near North Dakota in such a wealth of potential names that can be coined in that manner.
This is funny, love your names. But now it has made me go to Google Maps and start looking for names to be made out of New Hampshire place names. I see the potential for a new thread somewhere . . .
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Originally Posted by kevxu
On the other hand, if there was no legal father in the picture, God Slick would have been one helluva name!
I think my favorite of all time is Holly Golightly, although I also loved the name Daisy Miller so much as a teenager that I gave the name to my favorite cat.
I am also partial to the names that Herman Melville used in his works: Benito Cereno, Ishmael, Billy Budd and Bartleby the Scrivener as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters: Ermine Bibble, Jobena Dorsey, Basil Duke Lee, Josephine Perry, Daisy Buchanan and Nick Caraway. And, of course, J.K. Rowlings character names: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Sirius Black, Bellatrix Lastrange...
I love nominative determinism or nomen omen:
John Self
Oedipus
Raskolnikov
Pangloss
Bigger Thomas
Neil Kingsblood
Auric Goldfinger
Ulick Norman Owen
Jesse B. Semple/Simple
Oh, exotic/strange like Anton Chigurh or Queequeg or funny ones like Buster Friendly or Slartibartfast haha or slick ones like James Bond.
I always liked Elora Danan from "Willow". I have friends who named their son Atticus after Atticus Finch.
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But now it has made me go to Google Maps and start looking for names to be made out of New Hampshire place names. I see the potential for a new thread somewhere . . . 
