Jane (Jane Austen) and Charles (Charles Dickens) are two more common authors names.

On the other hand, some of the best stories have the greatest names.

There is no end to the baby names for boys and girls that can be found in literature.

Whether you are looking to name your new child after a favorite author or character, Ive put together a list of unique baby names from literature to help inspire you.

Naming Parties If you are having a tough time deciding on a name for your baby, maybe try hosting a naming party where friends and family can put different options up for a vote.

Author Names for Girls For hundreds of years, there have been some pretty impressive female authors that have produced some of the greatest literary works of all time.

Here are five well known women writers with some pretty interesting names that can make for a unique baby girls name from literature.

Beatrix Beatrix Potter is a famous English author known for her childrens books.

Born Helen Beatrix Potter, she published about 23 books total, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902).

The name Beatrix most likely came from Viatrix, a feminine form of the Latin name Viator, which meant voyager or traveler.

The spelling was later altered with association with the Latin term beatus, which means blessed.

Charlotte CharlotteBront was yet another English author and poet.

Charles simply means man or manly, so Charlotte is more like feminine manly.

Harper The first American author to make this list is Harper Lee, who is known for her classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).

While her real name is Nelle Harper Lee, Harper still makes for a great potential name for a baby of either gender, since it is considered gender neutral even though it is mainly given to girls.

Harper simply means harp player.

Toni One of my personal favorite female American authors is Toni Morrison.

Morrisons works include Beloved (1987) and The Bluest Eye (1970).

In English, Toni is simply an abbreviated version of Antoinette or Antonia.

In French, it means beyond praise.

Willa Willa Cather is another American female novelist, known for novels about frontier life, such as My ntonia (1918).

Willa is the feminine form of William and means resolute protection.

Lisa Rosario via Flickr (CC License) Baby Name Spellings Almost every name out there has a different variation on how its spelled.

Dont be afraid to take your favorite name inspired by literature and choose a different spelling if you dont like how it looks.

Author Names for Boys Of course, there is also no end to the amount of boys names that can be found in the list of male authors over the centuries.

Just like women writers, the men can inspire some unique baby boys names as well.

Bram Bram Stoker was an Irish author whose best known work, Dracula (1897), continues to inspire Hollywood and entertainment today.

Its no surprise to learn that Bram Stokers real first name was Abraham, since Bram is the short form of Abram or Abraham.

The meaning of Bram is bramble or raven.

Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) is one of the best.

The meaning of Clive is cliff or slope.

Elie Elie Wiesel is a Romanian-born author of 57 books, including the infamous Night (1960).

Elie is a variant form of Eli, which means high.

Huxley Yet another of my personal favorites, Aldous Huxley was a British author, best known for Brave New World (1932).

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