Girl names from Literature?

I know you've already picked your names, but thought I'd share a list I compiled ages ago for anyone who is interested!

I love a lot of Harry Potter names, so they appear quite frequently.

Frederica (Lady Susan - Jane Austen)
Luna (Harry Potter)
Serafina (His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman)
Amy (Little Women - Louisa May Allcott)
Evelina (Evelina - Frances Burney)
Lily (Harry Potter)
Emma (Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert)
Emilia (Othello - Shakespeare)
Marietta (Harry Potter)
Bellatrix (Harry Potter)
May (Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton)
Ellen (Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton)
Celeste (The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton)
Lucy (Chronicles of Narnia - C.S Lewis)
Mina (Dracula - Bram Stoker)
Camille (The Lady of the Camellias - Alexandre Dumas)
Dinah (Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll)
 
I was looking at a lot of names from literature some time ago, so i know some of these have been added already but im just going to put the whole list of ones i like on here.
Lots of Harry Potter names. Lots of Greek names from things such as Trojan Women by Euripides :)

Firstly I love Sonnet as a name. Not a character or anything, but I LOVE that name.

Hermione (Shakespeare -Winters Tale then Harry Potter)
Luna (Harry Potter)
Arabella (Harry Potter)
Hester (Scarlett Letter)
Celie (Color Purple)
Cassandra (Euripides & Shakespeare)
Helen (Most beautiful woman on earth & starts trojan war - euripides)
Helena (Midsummer Nights Dream)
Hermia (Midsummer Nights Dream)
Isabella (Measure for Measure then Twilight)
Iris (Tempest)
Persephone (Greek Myth)
Octavia (Cleopatra)
Portia (Merchant of Venice)
Reagan (King Lear & The Exorcist)
Rosaline/Rosalind (Romeo & Juliet)
Hestia (Greek Myth)
Hebe (Greek Myth)
 
Ophelia is from Hamlet :) Sorry for the correction :) I do love this name though
 
How about...

Daisy - Great Gatsby
Estella- Great Expectations - I did a project with OH freshman year, comparing the Great Gatsby and Great Expectations, he has wanted an Estella ever since.
Olive- The Bostonians
Holden- The Catcher in the Rye
Annabel- Annabel Lee
Desdemona- Othello
Eleonora- Eleonora
Soraya & Jamila- Kite Runner
Shiva- Midnight's Children (a man in the novel, a womans name)
Sethe- Beloved
Anna & Kate - My Sister's Keeper
Gillian- Stranger in a Strange Land
Josie- Nineteen Minutes
Lolita & Valeria- Lolita


To be honest though, I love Harper.
 

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