Draft:List of given names derived from fiction

This is a list of given names invented by novelists or other writers of fiction.


 * Anakin, original name of Darth Vader in Star Wars
 * Cataleya, popularised by Cataleya Restrepo, violent heroine in the 2011 French-American action film Colombiana played by Zoe Saldana
 * Cedric, popularised by Frances Hodgson's protagonist Cedric Errol in the 1886 children's book Little Lord Fauntleroy
 * Coraline, variant of Caroline in Neil Gaiman's dark fantasy novella Coraline
 * Daenerys, after George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen
 * Deja, after Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian princess in Dejah Thoris in Barsoom novels
 * Janice, first used by Paul Leicester Ford for the heroine of the 1899 novel and 1924 film Janice Meredith
 * Jessica, name of Shakespearean character Jessica in The Merchant of Venice
 * Khaleesi meaning 'queen' referring to George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen
 * Kylo after the Star Wars character Kylo Ren
 * Lorna, from R. D. Blackmore's 1869 novel Lorna Doone
 * Luana, name of the Polynesian heroine in 1932 film Bird of Paradise, based on a 1912 play
 * Lucinda, first used for a character in Miguel Cervantes's 1605 work Don Quixote
 * Malvina, popularized by the 18th century Scottish poet James Macpherson
 * Medora, heroine of Byron's poem The Corsair, Verdi's opera Il corsaro, and Adam's ballet Le Corsaire
 * Miranda, invented by William Shakespeare for the character in his play The Tempest
 * Myra, created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville 1st Barone Brooke (1554–1628)
 * Norma, which entered general usage after Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 opera Norma, following the tragedy Norma by Alexandre Soumet
 * Pamela, invented by Sir Philip Sidney in his 16th-century work The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
 * Renesmee, created by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer for Renesmee Carlie Cullen in 2008 novel Breaking Dawn
 * Stella, first used by Philip Sidney in his 1580s sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella
 * Thelma, popularized by Marie Corelli in her 1887 novel Thelma
 * Una, used by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene
 * Vanessa, invented by Jonathan Swift in his 1713 poem "Cadenus and Vanessa", published in 1726, about his relationship with Esther Vanhomrigh
 * Velvet, popularised after Elizabeth Taylor played Velvet Brown in the 1944 film National Velvet, based on the 1935 book by Enid Bagnold
 * Wednesday, popularized after Charles Addams chose the name for Wednesday Addams in the 1964 television sitcom The Addams Family
 * Wendy, popularized as a feminine name after Wendy Darling in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy