Names Inspired by Literary Authors - Female & Male

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Names Inspired by Literary Authors - Female
Names
Meanings
Anne  (Tyler)
Grace; Favour
Barbara  (Kingsolver)
foreign
Caroyln  (Keene)
Noble-spirited 
Charlotee  (Bronte)
Tiny and feminine
Doris  (Lessing)
Sea
Elizabeth  (Barrett Browsing)
My God is bountiful
Emily  (Dickinson)
Industrious  
Harper  (Lee)
A player on the harp
Harriet  (Beecher Stowe)
Home ruler
Jane  (Austen)
God is gracious
Jonne Kathleen  (J.K Rowling)
Pure
Judy  (Blume)
A familiar form of Judith
Kaherdine  (Mansfield)
brother of Isolde
Louisa  (May Alcott)
Famous Warrior
Lucy Maud  (Montgomery)
Light, Powerful battler
Madeline (L'Engle)
High Tower
Margaret  (Atwood)
Pearl 
Marge  (Piercy)
Short form of Margaret
Mary  (Shelley)
bitter, bitterness
Maya  (Angelou)
Truth
Paula  (Danziger)
Small
Rebecca  (Wells)
Beauty
Sylvia  (Plath)
Wooded
Virginia   (Woolf)
Form of Virginia
Willa  (Cather)
Will, desire

NAMES BASED BY LITERARY AUTHORS - MALE
Names
Meanings
Ambrose  (Bierce)
Immortal
Bram  (Stoker)
Father
Cormac  (McCarthy)
charioteer
Dan  (Brown)
God is my judge
Ernest   (Hemingway)
Earnest
George  (Orwell)
Farmer
Henry David  (Thoreau)
Ruler of Household, Beloved
Hostage
J.D  (Salinger)
N/A
Jules  (Verne)
Form of Julius
Leo  (Tolstoy)
Lion
Lewis  (Carroll)
A form of Louis
Mario  (Puzo)
A form of Marino
Mark  (Twain)
Tristan's uncle
Nicholas  (Sparks)
successful commander  
Oscar  (Wilde)
Divine spear
Ray  (Bradbury)
Kingly, Royal
Scott  (Fitzgerald)
The wanderer
Stephen   (King)
Crowned
Tennessee  (Williams)
Mighty warrior
Tom  (Clancy)
A Short form of Thomas
Truman  (Capote) 
Honest
Growing; flourishing
Walt  (Whitman)
A short form of Walter
William  (Faulkner)
Protector



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