Top Ten Character Names I Love
Top Ten Tuesday is a featured created by The Broke and the Bookish. Check out their website for weekly topics. This week’s topic is Top Ten Character Names I Love or Top Ten Unusual Character Names. As someone with a slightly unusual and hard to pronounce name, I appreciate it when characters have unusual names. However, I don’t like it when everyone has a really different name (unless we’re in a totally new world) because it just doesn’t feel authentic. I am also not a huge fan of traditional names with just really weird spellings.
1. Karou (Daughter of Smoke and Bone) – This is such a great name. It just sounds cool.
2. Aria (Under The Never Sky) – This is a really pretty name and I like that it actually has meaning to the character.
3. Cinder (Cinder) – Love this character and the name. There is actually a male character named Cinder in Under the Never Sky as well. I prefer it as a female name but it’s good as a male name, too.
4. Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones) – There are a lot of vowels in this name! But Daenerys is such a strong character and I think I read somewhere that people are starting to name their kids after her. How cool is that?
5. Ismae (Grave Mercy) – Badass name for a badass character.
6. Colin (Romancing Mr. Bridgerton) – Colin is a solid boy’s name and it’s not around much anymore. The Colin in this book is also rakish and adorable, which is another reason to love it. I used to know a lot of Colins when I was a kid but I think it’s gone out of style. Bring it back!
7. Vlad (Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, Cat & Bones) – Such a traditional and slightly ominous name. A name like Vlad holds a lot of power.
8. Sam (Lord of the Rings) – There are a lot of Sams in literature. It’s a really solid, dependable name. Someone named Sam is someone you can count on. It also works as a girl name though I can’t think of any female Sams in books off the top of my head.
9. Dorian (Dorian Grey, Hostage To Pleasure) – This name has a slightly exotic and mysterious feel to me. It’s not used too often but I really like it.
10. Gabriel (Storm, Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake) – I have always had a soft spot for Gabriels. I prefer the full name to the shortened Gabe but both are cute.
Jasper (Twilight, I Hunt Killers) – OK I don’t actually have an issue with the name Jasper, only the fact that they all seem to shorten it some some version of Jazz. Seriously – Jazz? It just makes me think of jazz hands.
Daemon (Obsidian) – What’s with the extra “e” in there? I just never know how to pronounce it…
