Naming Children After Literary Characters
I like this staff recommendation card for Roger Zelazny’s The Great Book of Amber from Kepler’s bookstore in Palo Alto:
And okay, yeah, I’ve considered it too.
I remember one time I actually came across an Amber internet message board where several teenagers had posted and said that their parents had named them after Amber characters. And of course there are a number of kids named after George R. R. Martin characters. I wonder how often this sort of thing happens, and what books have inspired the most kids’ names. It seems like the ultimate compliment for an author to receive — far more so than any award or review or whatever.
October 25th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I don’t know about books, but I was on a bus a few years ago, and witnessed parents trying to get the attention of their toddler son “Annakin.” Well it’s better than “Boba” I guess.
October 27th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
But isn’t naming a kid Annakin much like naming a kid Adolf? I mean, strictly speaking?
October 28th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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