Names Created by Authors

Of all the Game of Thrones creations this is surely the most delicate and the most wearable. Margaery, (pronounced like the Scottish name Marjorie) is a beautiful, powerful and intelligent character who becomes queen.

Jonathon Swift is better known as the inventor of the popular Vanessa, however, he also invented Cadenus for the same poem, simply titled Cadenus and Vanessa. Cadenus is an anagram of the Latin decanus meaning "dean", as in, the dean of a cathedral. At the time of writing, Swift was the dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, known in his community as Dean Swift. Vanessa meanwhile is a play on his lover's name, Esther Vanhomrigh, so both Cadenus and Vanessa are pseudonyms that Swift used in order to write a secret love poem.

Variation of Abilene.

Borne by the protagonist of the popular Dutch children's novel, The Letter for the King (De brief voor de koning), Tiuri was invented by the writer Tonke Dragt. The novel (and its sequels) are a medieval fantasy books, following the journeys and adventures of Tuiri, a young squire, soon to be knighted.

A literary name, likely invented by Czech author Julius Zeyer for his 1898 play, Radúz and Mahulena, Mahulena is an intriguing yet familiar sounding choice, probably inspired by Magdalena. The play uses elements of classic fairy tales, Slovak mythology, and Indian dramas to tell the story of Radúz and Mahulena, lovers from feuding kingdoms.

Tissaia de Vries is a sorceress character on the Netflix series The Witcher. The origins of this created name are uncertain, but a quick search will pull up many theories, from a variation of Tess, Taisia, or Tasia, or spawned from the Latin word "titulus" (we're not sure if we buy that one).

Fanciful feminissima name created by L. Frank Baum for a character in The Patchwork Girl of Oz.

A fanciful concoction whipped up by L. Frank Baum for a beautiful and powerful princess in one of his Oz books.

Inspired by Glendora, this name was invented by prolific Victorian novelist, Anthony Trollope for his Palliser novels. It blends the English glen with the Latin cor to make the whimsical meaning "heart of the glen", though it could also be considered a compound name, combining masculine Glenn with Cora, to mean "maiden of the valley".

Fanciful name created by L. Frank Baum for a character in his book Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.

Derived from J. R.R. Tolkien's fictional language of Sindarin, Legolas is a nature name and a literary creation, borne by an elf in The Lord of the Rings. A member of the Fellowship and an excellent bowman, his name hasn't caught on in the same way Arwen, Eowyn, Peregrin, Theoden, amd Elanor have.

A queen in George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, featured in the GOT prequel House of the Dragon, where she is played by Sian Brooke.

A knight in the Game of Thrones universe, Arys debuted on the charts for both sexes in 2023, possibly owing to the pop culture connection, but also thanks to the popularity of Ares, a Greek mythology name meaning "bane, ruin" which as been trending upwards. It was given to a small handful of babies in a recent year.

The name of a beautiful princess of Wales in Arthurian legend, Esmeree appears the French romance poem Le Bel Inconnu (The Fair Unknown) written by Renaut de Bâgé in the 12th-century. In the poem, Esmeree, who has been cursed into the form of a serpent, is rescued by Gingalain, a son of Sir Gawain.

Looks very much like it lost its first initial.

Used in the novel and subsequent Disney movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century , Zenon is typically a masculine name of Greek and Polish origin, however, in the book and film, it was used for a girl who lives on a space station and is sent to earth as a punishment.

The titular character of a tragic poem by Edgar Allen Poe set in a lonesome October. Ulalume may be representative of death itself, making the name feel gothic and otherwordly. The etymology is uncertain, but Poe may have derived it from the Latin ululare meaning wailing or lumen a light symbolizing sorrow.

Florimel is an English name created by Edward Spencer for his poem, The Faerie Queene.

A literary name, originally created as a male name by the poet Mihály Vörösmarty, that is now in the Hungarian Top 100 for girls.

Anelma derived from the Finnish word anella, meaning "to beg." It was invented in 1906 by a lawyer named Edla Kojonen.