a name by any other name.
we love names. this you already know.
from pedestrian, you have already met lincoln booth and mona mills. and soon, maybe soon, you'll meet a young boy named tar and a curious hitchhiker named harley dean delphin.
sloooooowly, you are starting to meet Boyfriend and Girlfriend from the true-love tale of Boyfriend and Girlfriend. with my writing, i usually start with names. this short is a just example of that. a boy named Girlfriend, a girl named Boyfriend... there exists a story in both of those names whether it's told or not. it lives there. it begs for telling. the names are strong when on their own, and serendipitious as one. where these names came from was my pal's dog, girlfriend. one of my own personal rules of naming (and the experts might disagree) is that a name should be fun to say, and when i see that little mutt, i say, 'hey, girlfriend,' and her tail starts a-waggin', and that's sure fun.
i've been a-workin' on my hopeful second feature called the dying words of edison strange. yep. there's a name there. edison strange is special. you'll see. i wrote a character for a pretty lady you may know, and that character's name is oh-so-good, oh-so-grand. but you'll have to wait on that one.
there's a line from a play i'm developing called population: 8. it occurs amongst a whirlwind of other lines within a dream that a woman named ugly is having about her love-gone-missing, jacob john stanley. "Jacob met a man named Frostbite. A man named Fire. A man named Rickshaw. A man named Spider." even out of context, i like that line. i like those names. what i don't like is that i'm realizing i owe a rewrite to that darn play...
names i love.
shane. from the eponymous shane.
ruth fisher. from six feet under.
charlotte "chuck" charles. from pushing daisies.
enoch emery. from wise blood.
shadowcat/kitty pryde. my favorite x-man.
rizzo. from grease.
boner. from growing pains.
tybalt. from romeo and juliet.
jay gatsby and daisy buchanan. from the great gatsby.
crumpet. from santaland diaries.
huckleberry finn. from the adventures of tom sawyer.
miss havisham. from great expectations.
sylar. from heroes.
heathcliff. from wuthering heights.
boo radley. from to kill a mockingbird.
indiana jones. duh.
and for some reason, i can't quite articulate, nearly every character from scream. sidney prescott, billy loomis, cotton weary, um, gale weathers...
and hilarie burton.
and kelly tenney.
and austin nichols.
sweet lord, do i love those names!
now. kindly.
tell me the names you love.
and oh, p.s.
much thanks for those sweet birthday wishes! my allergies punished me dearly on my birthday, not to mention i worked and had play rehearsal (or as hilarie calls it, "practice") but you all truly made it a memorable april 2nd for this guy...
yours.
n.gray
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Me too i love the name Tybalt from Romeo and Juliet. I love too all these names :
Obiwan, Rasta, Vodka, Chipie, Gamin, Abigaëlle (this name is written in French), Nicholas Gray, Hilarie Burton, Kelly Tenney, Austin Nichols, ...
Madeleine (pronounced MAD-uh-lin) it's a new love affair, I just adopted a dog by the very same name.
Brenden. (Take a name, change the vowels, fall in love.)
Edelweiss. What a middle name that would be.
Jasper
Abigail
Sampson and Delilah (from the Bible)
This was fun. Ever so fun.
My favs
McGannahan Skjellyfetti(The Grateful Deads first song writing credit)
Moe,Larry,Curly and Shemp...Stooges that they are
Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo. Boy, were they nutty.
Just one name, a name that reminds me of you Mr. Gray...
Fitzwilliam MacMurray - he is this fictional character from the book that I'm reading (Vanishing Act, J. Picoult) who is apparently a writer and stands as a constant for his girl bestfriend.
I know, It is strange :D
Names... Very interesting topics!
Clarissa Dalloway - Mrs Dalloway
Lorelai Gilmore - Gilmore Girls
Scarlett O'Hara - Gone With The Wind
Dorothy Gale - The Wizard of Oz
Satine - Moulin Rouge
Belle - Beauty and the Beast
Peyton Sawyer - Duh :)
Toulouse-Lautrec
Judy Garland
Virginia Woolf
Harlow
Etc. I think many of us could go on for hours and hours! Btw, nice shout out to Pushing Daisies! :)
- Jess
For some odd reasons I like superheros names.. Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne.
Johanna- my best friend's name
Carly Shay- iCarly
Noah Calhoun- The notebook
Peyton Sawyer and Mouth my fav. OTH characters.
Brigette
I just wanted to say I really like this site. It's really neat to get a front row seat to something that I'm interested in maybe pursuing someday.
Oh and on topic:
Phoebe Buffay and Chandler Bing because I love Friends
Willy Wonka
Forrest Gump
Silent Bob
Icabod Crane
Lest I forget another name! The coolest, most random name... Violet Bickerstaff from Saved By the Bell. How great is that?! Haha
Wow! Names, Well although we're not supposed to talk about it much on here.
Peyton Sawyer from One Tree Hill, I swear some day I'm going to name my kid Peyton or a dog I'm not sure.
I love the Name Embry, Reading the Twilight books there is member of the wolf pack and his name is Embry, its just such a unique name.
Fletcher is another name in which I love, I always tease my freind Ben cause his middle name is Fletcher, but for some reason I love it it sounds so mysterious, like a man named fletcher would have a story. Maybe I'm just being imaginative.
Anne Shirley from Green Gables, simple and plain, the most perfect name for her, yet I beleive it never suited her ambitious and witty personaility.
Loralai Gilmore, The most perfect name I wish my name is Loralai, it's just such a beautiful name.
Jolly good times here! I LOVE the name Charlotte Charles from Pushing Daisies. That was a great show... too bad they took it off the air.
Anywho, I'm a fan of the name Nicholas Nickelby for some reason. I like that it's semi-reduntant.
Anastasia and Merrick are really neat names... also known as my Grandmother's name! :)
I also enjoy anyone named after the greatest makers of board games/toys... Milton Bradley- he's a baseball player, but his name is just so fun!
Lincoln Booth is a pretty sweet name too. ;)
Oh and of course all of your fabulous names.
aww,I totally love the names : hilarie burton,peyton sawyer,brooke davis,sophia bush,bethany joy galeotti,chad michael murray ,phoebe ,rachel,monica,chandler, they all sound melodic and belong to great people and characters !!!! and I just totally love the name Sarah from Hebrew meaning the one who achieves her goals :)))))))))
xoxo,Milena
Oh how I LOVE names. When I was a little girl I would name all the children I was going to have. Now I have one very real very wonderful little boy and I love his name...obviously.
William Jack Johnson, of course we call him Jack.
I also adore the director's name Hilary Birmingham, both because I'm from Birmingham, Alabama AND because it's a good film.
Elizabeth...Elizabeth...it was my grandmothers middle name and everyone always wants to shorten it: Beth Liz, Lizzie...I love Elizabeth. So vintage, so Victorian...so...Elizabeth.
As I'm sure many people claim to be, I am an amateur writer and I'll pick one of my own character's names...a character I have cried with and laughed at and held in my heart for over ten years now...maybe one day I'll help her come to life on the pages of a really, real book...Callie Daniels. She's strong, she's beautiful, she's a survivor, she's smart, she's silly, she's everything I'm not and more than I ever dreamed she'd be.
Oh...and I love RuPaul LOL.
My all time fav name is Slosson Todt. It's not from a book or movie it's just something I made up from street names I have seen in my travels.
hmmm.
Dawson Leery- Dawson's Creek
Pacey Witter- Dawson's Creek
Scout Finch- To Kill A Mocking Bird
Landon Rawlings Carter- A Walk to Remember
Holly Golightly- Breakfast at Tiffany's
Baby Houseman- Dirty Dancing
Forrest Gump- Forrest Gump
Annabelle Lee- Edgar Alle Poe's "Annabelle Lee"
Careen O'Hara- Gone With the Wind
Noah Calhoun- The Notebook
Hubbell Gardner- The Way We Were
-preilly ♥
You all have mentioned so many great names that I love from books, movies and tv show.
I love Jacob Alexander, as that is my son's name. Should he have been a girl, he would have been Peyton Elise (and that was in 1995)
I love James Bond, b/c of the way Jacob says it to me, Bond, James Bond.
Punky Brewster aka Soleil Moon Frye
Marty McFly
I love the name or nickname Sunshine
and any other crazy goofy name that people come up with that just makes no sense but fits the person and the mood.
I also like the names, but I live in Brazil, and here the names are different then the United States. My it is beautiful here, but the U.S. is not used much. I love the name Eduardo, but I do not know if that name is there for you!
I like the American names, but I think ridiculous when used in Brazil.
kisses :p
These are a few of my favourites:
Holden Caulfield - Catcher in the Rye
Ethan Harrison Jarlewski - JPod
Liz Lemon - 30 Rock
Don Draper/Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Winston Scott Humphrey - My hamster
And I like my name, Carmela Lauren Ferro. :)
Hmmm most of my favorites have already been mentioned, but I will list them anyways. I seem to have a HUGE thing for P names
Peyton Sawyer (yeah yeah)
Piper Halliwell - From the TV show Charmed
Penny Lane - Beatles/Almost Famous
Pacey Witter - Dawson's Creek
Willow Rosenburg -Buffy
Scarlet O'Hara
Andy Warhol
Rayanne Graff- MSCL
Cool update! I love names. I think it's funny how someone you know with a certain name can either ruin it entirely for you or make you love the name that much more, lol.
Hmm. I definitely agree with the characters from Gatsby, and Boo Radley. Also: Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tracy Flick from Election, Susie Salmon from The Lovely Bones, Penny Lane from Almost Famous ... not necessarily really bizarre names, but just ones that I loved that made me love the character a bit more, or want to know more about them and their story.
Names... such an interesting topic!!!! There are so many that I like...
For tv and movie characters:
Peyton Sawyer of course!
James Lucas Scott.. the name has so much behind it, I love it!!
Meredith Grey & Lexi Grey both from Grey's Anatomy
Danny Zuko Grease
Americus Where the Heart Is
Books:
Jay Gatsby The Great Gatsby
Annabel Greene Just Listen
plus many many more
Random Names that I love:
Isabelle or Isabella, Leah, Jude, Justin, Majandra, Charity and there are more of course but I will stop at that!!
Thanks for such an interesting post, as always it got me thinking!!
Oh--and how could I forget...Peyton Sawyer. Very cool. Who came up with that combo?
Names, what a fun topic! Some of my favs are...
Characters:
Keely Teslow (Phil of the Future)
Pepper Dennis
Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Phil Diffy (Phil of the Future)
Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride & Prejudice)
Public Figures:
Alyson Michalka
Chad Michael Murray
Barack Obama
Soledad O'Brien
Keira Knightley
John Woo
Biblical:
Saul of Tarsus (a.k.a. Paul)
Jedidiah
Yeshua (Jesus)
Ellen "Nelly" Dean - Wuthering Heights (just always loved that name)
Al Pacino - actor/director (his name is just awesomeness)
Vito Andolini Corleone - The Godfather (this name just screams MAFIA!)
I do have some unique names that I want for my children but im not telling ;)
Awesome blog, Nick.
Sue
So I've been thinking about this for the past 24ish hours and I can't come up with a list of favorite names. It changes and depends on my mood. And from thinking of this, I have realized to me it's not the actual name, but the story that goes with the name.
For instance, Elphaba from wicked. Gregory McGuire came up with this name based on L Frank Baum (the author of Wizard of Oz) by blending the letters LFB. Now that's clever! I love hearing the stories behind names.
I do however, love odd spellings. Which is kinda weird considering my name was and still is ALWAYS spelled wrong which is irritating. I'm pretty sure anyone with a non-traditional spelling can side with me on this one.
~Round house kicks Nicks Allergies in the jugular~ thats for them punishing you on your Birthday! Hope you still had good time even though you had to work!
Ok so great blog. Oh boy did i get Boyfriend and Girlfriend confused haha anyhoo moving on here's a short list of some of my favourite names.
Chandler Bing (Friends)
Andy Anderson (How to lose a guy in 10 days)
Peyton Sawyer (Cany descibe how much I love this name!!)
Bella Swan (Twilight)
Michael Scofield (Prison Break-Its such a sexy name!)
Gaylord Focker (Meet the Parents haha most creative name ever!)
Oh and I love all the characters names from Scream! Kevin Williamson has that awesome naming ability even in Dawsons creek his characters names just matched with their personalities!
Names = Love
Donnie Darko
Gertie - ET
Lilly Laronette - Bad Girls
Trick Dixon - Our Gang
Bonanza Jellybean - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Ziggy Stardust
Clark Griswold
Ratso Rizzo - Midnight Cowboy
Holly Golightly - Breakfast At Tiffany's
Lorelei Lee - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk - Some Like It Hot
Bunny O'Hare
Lister, Rimmer, Cat and Kryten - Red Dwarf
Thank you for sharing! I have a thing for names too :)
Smiles,
Angie
aw nick you got me here. i LOVE names. i always have and i dont know why. i just hear names and love them.
some of my favorite which aren't associated with movies/books/tv shows:
Kaylee
Avery
Jake
Caedin
now the ones which are associated with movies/tv shows/books:
Scout Finch - TKAM
June Carter - Walk The Line
Evie Zamora - Thirteen
Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in The Rye
Chuck Charles - Pushing Daisies
Juno - Juno
Halley Cooke - Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Lorelai - Gilmore Girls
Chandler Bing - Friends
and hands down: peyton sawyer
- nadine
p.s.: i'm sorry about your allergies. i know what you are talking about :/
One of my favorite Flannery O'Connor stories...Good Country People...has the BEST names ever!! The bible salesman...Manly Pointer...as well as the pessimistic, one-legged Joy/Hulga Hopewell.
I also really like the name Dolphus Raymond...the "drunk" from To Kill a Mockingbird.
Those are a few of my favorites. I really like yours as well!!
- Jasmine
Wow. I hate not having a functioning computer. I’m missing all of these great blog posts. :( But, I’m here now... so yay! :)
Most of these have already been said, but they are really great names. lol
-Evelyne Dawson (my friend’s name)
-Elphaba Thropp (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)
-Ignatius J. Reilly, Betty Bumper (Confederacy of Dunces)
-Hazel Motes, Enoch Emery (Wise Blood)
-Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, Boo Radley (To Kill A Mockingbird)
-Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
-Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye)
-Inspector Flint (Wilt)
-Prince Prospero (The Masque of the Red Death)
-Turtle Wexler (The Westing Game)
-Bugs Meany (Encyclopedia Brown)
-Puck (Robin Goodfellow), Bottom, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, Francis Flute, -Snout, Snug, Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream- it pretty much has the best names ever)
-Aemilius Lepidus, Octavius (Julius Cesar)
-Guildenstern, Horatio, Claudius (it means “the lame one”.. how cool is that?!), Fortinbras (Hamlet)
-Tybalt, Benvolio, Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet)
-Ursula, Flounder, Scuttle (The Little Mermaid)
-Mufasa, Scar, Rafiki (The Lion King)
-Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, Shere Khan (The Jungle Book)
-Gentleman Starkey (Peter Pan)
-Montresor and Fortunato (The Cask of Amontillado)
-Ms. Frizzle (Magic School Bus)
-Buster Baxter, Binky Barnes (Arthur)
-Dill Pickles, Phil and Lil Deville (Rugrats)
-Topanga Lawrence, Stuart Minkus (Boy Meets World)
-Stroker (Freaks and Geeks)
-Avatar Alpha and Gamma, Asmodeus, Odin, Cronus , Tarkin, Zyke (Charmed)
-Renée Rienne (Alias)
-Herbal Thought (Dark Angel)
-Fox (Wanted)
-Legs (Foxfire)
-Heels (Flashdance)
-Eleanor Rigby and Penny Lane (The Beatles)
-Ray LaMontagne (Musician)
-Orville Redenbacher (Popcorn)
-Dick Butkus (Football)
And this list could go on forever… so I might as well stop :)
My favorite names that I would actually name my future children (some are middle names)-
-Girls: Addison, Anna, Aubrey, Brenna, Brooke, Brynn, Cameron, Camille (my middle name and my moms), Davanee (or Davony), Elizabeth, Evangeline, Evelyne, Kia, Kylie, McKenna, Peyton, Taylor
-Boys: Aiden, Austin, Brayden (or Brady), Brennan, Brody, Bronson, Bryson, Cayden, James, Jayden, Kale, Kenton, Landon, Leon, Lucas, Trenton, Tristan, William
And just because Vally mentioned nicknames…
mine are (i’ve had others, but these are the only ones that have stuck throughout the years):
-Chachi (from my sister- apparently Kelsey was too hard to say when she was little)
-Chicken (from my dad- Hilarie is not the only one with that one)
<3 Kels
Still more springing to mind:
Morpheus - The Matrix Trilogy
Leroy Jethro Gibbs - NCIS
Juno MacGuff - Juno
Milo Rambaldi - Alias
Vincent Vega - Pulp Fiction
Hattori Hanzo and O-Ren Ishii - Kill Bill
The eponymous Eli Stone
Names are something I also have always loved. I don't generally like them based on their characters, but I do sometimes. It's mostly based on the way I feel about the name and its meaning:
Girls:
Hope
Iris
Lea (pronounced LAY-ah) – Weary.
Elizabeth
Kira – Like the sun. (from Gathering Blue, Lowry)
Boys:
Felipe – Lover of horses.
Zachary – God has remembered.
Francis – Free.
Jade
Keane – Free.
Jonas - Dove. (from The Giver, Lowry)
Solomon - Peaceable. (from Jewish Holocaust writer, Solomon Perel)
Name that I love :
- Charlotte (she's my sister)
- Mathilde (my other sister)
- Nolwenn Leroy (my favourite singer)
- Peyton Saywer
- Haley James Scott
- Keren Ann
- Jack Sparrow
- Lucas Scott
- Derek Shepherd
and...
- Hilarie Burton
- Nicholas Gray
- Kelly Tenney
- Austin Nichols
**Love**
Emilie
Names popping in spontaneously are ...
Idgie Threadgoode (the bee charmer and Towanda) from Fried Green Tomatoes
Nell from Nell
Lorelai from Gilmore Girls
... and, of course ...
Nicholas Gray
Hilarie Burton
Kelly Tenney
Austin Nichols
Have a great (Sun)day :)
Nick,
Awesome post!!!! One of the Best, I think! I have really enjoyed reading throught them all.
I agree with a lot of them but here are some of my own.
Minka Kelly- Actress
Emmett Cullen- Twilight
Sebastian Valmont- Cruel Intentions
Selma Blair- Actress
Kingston Rossdale
Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable - The Cosby Show
Sherlock Holmes
Santiago- That one book by ernest Hemmingway
Eeyore- Winnie the Pooh
Nazgul-The Lord of the Rings
James Bond
Bo Duke- Dukes of Hazzard
Cornelius Fudge- Harry Potter
PEYTON SAYWER AND BROOKE PENELOPE DAVIS- OTH
There are so many others that arent coming to mind right now! But thanks to you dear nick, I shall now think and riht them now for future reference! :)
-Gloriana
Oooh very nice post you've composed Mr. Gray.
Hmmm lets see some of my favorite names...
Hero & Borachio - Much Ado About Nothing
Americas & Novalee Nation - Where the Heart Is
Noah Calhoun-The Notebook
Inman, Ada Monroe, & Ruby Thewes - Cold Mountain
Napoleon Dynamite
Scout Finch-To Kill a Mockingbird
Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean
Mr. Fiene - Boy Meets World (growing up we thought it was cool that a character on tv had the same name last name as my grandma lol)
Juno MacGuff - Juno
Ponyboy & Sodapop Curtis, Dallas Winston - The Outsiders
Chaffee Bicknell - Baby Mama
Mufasa- Lion King
Kelly Kapowski - Saved By the Bell
Kenickie - Grease
Forrest Gump
Sunday Rose
Alaina (my mom's name)
Thanks for sharing with us your favorites Nick!
-Nickie
Had to add one more.
Amara Katherine Reznikoz - yes, it is a real name. That is my two-year-old niece.
"Podcaster Denise"
I love unisex names; ones you would use for both female and male. I'm considering on doing that when I have kids. :)
eg.
Shane (for a girl)
Paris (for a boy, after seeing Troy)
Blake (for a girl)
Kimberley (for a boy)
Charlie (for a girl)
Matti (pronounced Matty, short for Matilda for a girl)
Other names I like:
Aida (my sister's middle name)
Gwyneth (Paltrow and my friend's middle name)
Peyton (OTH)
Seth Cohen (the OC)
Names from Harry Potter.
I also have unusual names for some of my stuffed animals lol. Sshh... hehe
eg.
Bumba (pronounced Boom-bah)
Pudgy (pronounced Pood-gee)
Yuki (pronounced Yoo-kee)
Buddha
Button (pronounced Boo at the start)
Yeah... I realise now there is a pattern going on here lol, with the U's. I also pronounce them this way cos my first language is spanish and I'm use to pronouncing words to how they are written. :)
Thanks Nick, this was fun! Names are quite something else entirely.
Names that I love…
Eliza Sommers, Joaquin Andieta ( Daughter of Fortune)
Turd Fergeson
Bill Bradsky, Debbie Downer, Mary Katherine Gallager (SNL)
Ron Burgandy, Champ Kind (Anchor Man)
Lilly Sabbath Hawks (Wise Blood)
Miss Katz (Flakes)
Tracy Turnblad, Link Larkin (Hairspray)
Liz Parker
Cameron Fry
Sawyer
I love names...what a great post!
Some of my faves.....
Watts (Some Kind of Wonderful)
Dinky Bossetti (Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael)
Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmations)
Duckie (Phil Dale) - (Pretty in Pink)
Hubbell Gardner (The Way We Were)
Stella - STELLAAA!!!! (A Streetcar Named Desire)
Tennesee Williams
Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)
Long Duk Dong (Sixteen Candles)
Pearl (The Scarlett Letter)
Lonely One (Dandelion Wine)
M'Lynn, Truvy, Ouiser, Clairee all from Steel Magnolias
***Susan
Hey Nick,
Sorry about your birthday. Hope you had fun anyway!
*Briony Tallis- Atonement
*Austin Aymes- A Cinderella Story
*Leroy Jethro Gibbs- NCIS
*Admiral A.J Chegwidden- JAG
*Bone- Bastard Out of Carolina
*Torch- Girl, Interrupted
*Mary Lennox- The Secret Garden
*Jo Johnston- The List
*Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer, Brooke Penelope Davis, Haley Bob James Scott- OTH
*Hilarie Burton
*Mr.Austin Nichols
*Nick Gray
*Kelly Tenney
Thanks for the post!
love from guam
xoxo
Bekah
bekah5201.blogspot.com
Layla Hart
Hennepin Bennet
Riona Blacklace
Reyna Monticelli
Piper Halliwell
Sophya Brooks
Wendy Darling
Edie Harlow
Ellie Nash
Emmanuelle Vaugier
Peyton Sawyer
Lena Van Danton
Sasha Holmquist
Tereza Queen
Phoebe Fiorella
a strong name makes a strong person. haha, these are all girl names.
Ok so my favorite names (that I can think of at the moment)
Charlie cool/Judge cool- The Grass Harp( probably my favorite name of all time, I mean come on the man's last name is "Cool")
Echo- Dollhouse (new series on Fox)
? moneymaker- I cant remember his first name, but he won the world series of Poker a few years ago, Can you believe the irony his last name is moneymaker, and he won A LOT of money
Mr. Austin Nichols- but you have to say it with the Mr.
Ummm... names, I love this post, some of my favourites:
- Milo Rambaldi (from Alias and also, the name of my cat)
- Aramis, Phortos and Athos and, of course, d'Artagnan (from The Three Musketers)
- Robin Hood (obvius)
- Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza (from Garcia Marquez "Love in the times of cholera")
- Dracula
- Nathaniel Bumppo and Cora Munro (from The last of the Mohicans)
Thanks for sharing your favourite names, Nicholas.
Besos.
Vero
* Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige Halliwell - From 'Charmed'
* Missy Higgins - singer, but her name is a cross between southern bell and modern woman
* Anastacia Beaverhousen - Karen Walker's (Will & Grace) alias
* Billy Sqire
* Rachel Yamagata
* Ray Lamontagne
* Shailee Mendelevich (my name!)
* Dr Frankenstein - duh
* April, May, June, August - Secret Life of Bees
* Jaoquin Phoenix
....YAY! One writting task I'm actually cable to contribute to!!
Thx Nick! You make me glad to write!
Lots of love
Hey Nick, glad that you had a good bday (I know everyone said it but still...). So, I read this post this morning, but wanted to take some time to think some names.
These are just some of the ones I like, the ones I can think of right now:
* Lucas (Luke) Portland and Portia Rowan, characters from Forbidden Love, a Fan Fiction I'm writing,
* Anna Frank, powerful name,
* Gregory Reeves, from The Infinite Plan,
* Marcos Mundstock, Argentinian comedian,
* August Boatwright, Secret Life of Bees,
* Jane Austen,
* Hermione J. Granger, (I love HP),
* Juno, from the film,
* Megan Mary,
* Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice,
* Peyton E. Sawyer, (I like her full name).
And, I've got to admit, I love Kelly for a guy!
xo,
Ella
Nick,
its nice to know your birthday was a memorable one.well i read the post while at work but i couldnt post since my phone takes forever to load the net so i had some time to think of some of the names i like so here they are.
Peyton Sawyer (of course)
Kenadie
Joylyn
Slade
Beckett Finn
America Ferrera
Neveah
Amethyst
Elijah
Americaus and Novalee Nation
Forrest Gump
Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue(who cannot love that name my nephews nickname is bubba)
Ugly (my other nephews nickname lol)
Holly Golightly
Fanny Brice
Meredith Morton
Sidda Lee Walker
Noxeema Jackson
Vida Boheme
Chi-Chi Rodriguez
lastly
Hilarie Burton
Kelly Tenney
Austin Nichols
Nicholas Gray
Peyton Elizabeth, and not because hilarie's character is peyton but because our dear friend's daughter Peyton Elizabeth died of Leukemia at the age of 7 this year. When i hear her name i think of her blonde curls and shimmering smile. and obviously Scarlett O'Hara from gone with the wind!
i think they have already been mentioned but i totally have to add the names of the outsiders to my post
its one of my favorite books
and i love the fact that PONYBOY and SODAPOP are no nicknames but the actual names of the characters
Not jsut b/c of Hil, but i LOVE the name Peyton Sawyer. :] annnd ooo, Biff Loman (Death of a Salesman)...dont know why, just a funny one. Topanga (Boy Meets World!). Thats a good one. I have to agree with whoever said Ryder. Ah!! I love this blog :] favroite question! And I love reading the responses :]
those are stupendous names...
umm, so some of these might be repeats but these are some names that I love, at least some that I can think of.
Scarlett O'Hara
Donnie Darko
George Bailey
Ferris Bueller
Lola
Princess Buttercup
Ducky
Holly Golightly
Forrest Gump
McFly
snuffleufflegus from sesame street
Buzz Lightyear
...I could probably go on but I think I'm done.
-Raquel