Top Ten Characters I'd Name My Children After

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of our bloggers answers. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND post a comment on our post with a link to your Top Ten Tuesday post to share with us and all those who are participating. If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. If you can't come up with ten, don't worry about it---post as many as you can!

My Top Ten:

1. Elizabeth Rose: After Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice.  Lizzie or Eliza for short.

2. Georgiana Jane: After Georgiana Darcy from Pride and Prejudice.  Gigi or Georgie for short.

3. Arthur Dent: From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  J insists, but I'm actually okay with this choice.

4. Emmeline: After Emma Woodhouse from Emma. I don't like just Emma, but Emmeline can be shortened to Emma if we choose.  (Notice the Jane Austen trend?)

5. Dorian Grey: From The Picture of Dorian Grey. Not a good, morale character, but such a great name that I had to add it.

6. Ophelia: From Shakespeare's Hamlet. Horrible ending for the character, but I so love her name.

7. Frances Price: After Fanny Price from Mansfield Park. Another great Jane Austen character and name.  Plus, Frances is my middle name, so keeping it in the family.

8. Evelyn Lyra: After Lyra from Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy.  First names must be able to be shortened, so Lyra cannot be a first name.  Perhaps a middle name.

9. Sophie Anne Elliot: After Anne Elliot from Austen's Persuasion, my favorite book, but the name needs a bit more.

10. Alice (or Alyss) Heart: After Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  One of all-time favorite books.

Some other possibilities: Cordelia (King Lear), Katharina (Taming of the Shrew), Josephine (Little Women), Rosalind (As You Like It), Edmund (Mansfield Park), Penelope (The Odyssey), Sam (The Maltese Falcon)... I could keep going, but I think that's a good list.

I would love to name my future children after great literary characters.  Names with meaning, strength, beauty, etc.  Plus, it would also be an interesting story.