Here are a few inspiring baby boy names from classic literature, so they can literally have a story behind their name! Find a list of girl's names here.
Boy's Names
- Abel - From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Amory - After Amory Blaine from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Angel - From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Aslan - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Atticus - The lovable father from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Bingley - After the charming Mr. Bingley from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
- Byron - Inspired by Lord Byron himself
- Cecil - From A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
- Claudio - From Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
- Conrad - From Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
- Darcy - The handsome (and rich) hero From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Dorian - From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Edmund - The hero from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
- Edward - After Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
- Frederick - After Jane Austen's hero Frederick Wentworth of Persuasion
- Franklin - From Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone
- Gabriel - From Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Gatsby - Inspired by The Great Gatsby created by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Holden - The protagonist from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Jay - Inspired by Jay Gatsby created by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Jem - Scout's big brother from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Josiah - From Charles Dicken's Hard Times
- Maxim - From Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca
- Pip - From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Oliver - The lovable orphan created by Charles Dickens
- Orlando - From Shakespeare's As You Like It
- Regan - From King Lear by Shakespeare
- Romeo - From Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
- Sawyer - After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Sebastian - From The Tempest, Twelfth Night and The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Shakespeare
- St. John - Prononced [SIN-jin] or [SIN-jun], inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
- Tim - The adorable Tiny Tim from Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol
- Victor - Named after doctor Frankenstein himself from Mary Shelley's horror classic
- Wentworth - After Jane Austen's hero Frederick Wentworth of Persuasion
- Winston - The protagonist from 1984 / Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell