Here are a few inspiring baby girl names from classic literature, so they can literally have a story behind their name! Find a list of boy's names here.
Girl's Names
- Anna - From Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Anne - Just like Anne of Green Gables or Anne Elliot from Jane Austen's Persuasion
- Alice - From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Arwen - The half-elf from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
- Beatrice - A character from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
- Bronte - After the Bronte sisters, the authors behind Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
- Catherine - The passionate and fiery character of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
- Charlotte - The loveable spider from Charlotte's web
- Daisy - From F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
- Dion - From Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
- Dorothea - Inspired by George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life
- Elinor - The sensible sister in Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility
- Elizabeth - or Lizzy for short - my personal favourite heroine from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
- Éowyn - The noble shieldmaiden from Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
- Estella - From Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
- Emma - Jane Austen's beautiful, intelligent and favourite heroine
- Gwen - From Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
- Heidi - From Johanna Spyri’s novel
- Hermione - Not just a Harry Potter character, the name also appears in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
- Hester - Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
- Imogen - From Shakespeare's Cymbeline
- Iris - From Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Jane - She is no bird! From Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
- Jo - After strong-willed Josephine March from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
- Jude - From Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
- Juliet - From Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
- Juno - From Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Katherina / Kate - "Kiss me, Kate!" From Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
- Lucy - Sweet Lucy from CS Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
- Lydia - Naughty by nice Lydia from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
- Marianne - The passionate sister from Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility
- Matilda - The clever and sweet protagonist from this well loved Roald Dahl story
- Mina - After Mina Harker from Bram's Stoker's Dracula
- Moll - From The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- Molly - Inspired by James Joyce's Ulysses
- Natasha - From Leo Tolstoy’s War And Peace
- Pearl - Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
- Penelope - From Odyssey, the poem by Homer
- Phoebe - Inspired by JD Salinger’s classic The Catcher In The Rye
- Rebecca - After Daphne Du Maurier's masterpiece
- Rosalind - From William Shakespeare’s As You Like It
- Scarlett - From Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind
- Scout - After Jean Louise "Scout" Finch from Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird
- Tess - After Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Zooey - Cool name inspired by JD Salinger’s Franny and Zooey