Literary Names

Names invented or popularised by a book or play. Several of the most ordinary-looking names in English use were coined by a single author and have been in circulation ever since.

11 names, rare — 25 to 99 a year, in United States

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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.

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