Favorite Names from Movies/TV Shows/Books

[markwillson01]

Mine favorite movie is Smurf and its one of the best animation movie. It's a good movie for animated fans and the story is good. A cool and perfect historical movie.

[rgp19]

Thesus- Immortal I think is a cool greek names plus henry cavill is very cute
Aurore-Aurore sad french movie and the little girl was so cute.
Fiammetta-thd borgias loved it after hearing it.
Aliena and jack - Pillars of the earth.

[jame1881]

Branson - Downton Abbey
One of my favorites now. In fact, I like most names from Downton Abbey. Anna, Matthew, Sybil...
I also like Ivy from Upstairs Downstairs.
Lewis from Inspector Lewis.
And Benedict as in Benedict Cumberbatch

[darci]

Most of my movie/book/tv names aren't necessarily because I like the character, it's usually just the first time I'd heard a certain name. In fact, a couple of them I can't stand the character

Ainsley, Claudia, Josiah, Toby (West Wing)
Andromeda, Emmeline, Fleur, Luna, Molly, Verity, Victoire, Arthur (Harry Potter)
Anya (Anastasia)
Aria (Pretty Little Liars)
Arwen, Elinor, Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)
Calleigh, Calliope, Claire, Nova, Stella, Mac (CSI franchise)
Dawn, Mallory, Logan (Baby-Sitters Club Books)
Desdemona, Ophelia, Horatio (Shakespeare)
Evangeline (Princess and the Frog)
Hollis, Kenzie, Liat, Nell, Callen, Jethro (NCIS franchise)
Paige, Phoebe, Piper, Wyatt (Charmed)
Willow, Xander (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Declan, Gideon, Reid (Criminal Minds)
Phineas (Phineas & Ferb)

[chelseamae]

Olive, Abe and the author (Ransom) Riggs -Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

TV names that I love for girls:

Serena, Georgina, Ivy -Gossip Girl
Frasier/Frazier and Daphne -Fraiser
Lemon and Magnolia - Hart of Dixie
Chandler and Phoebe -Friends\
Temperence -Bones
Shannon and Claire -Lost

TV names that I love for boys:
Bartholomew and (Dan) Humphrey -Gossip Girl
Walt -Lost
Niles - Frasier

[frustratedauthor]

Boys:
Elliot - ET, Leverage, SVU
Nathan (nn Nate) - Leverage, Heroes
Sawyer - Lost
Desmond - Lost
Malcolm (nn Mal) - Firefly
Arlo - Justified

Girls
Winifred (nn Fred) - Angel the Series
Luna - Harry Potter
Hermione - Harry Potter
Willow - BtVS

[aureliagwendolen]

I would probably never give these to a real kid... but I like Raistlin (from Dragonlance) for a boy and Laurana (also from Dragonlance) and Arwen (from LoTR) for a girl. I'd use them for pets though.

And if video game names count, I love the names Marian and Alistair from the Dragon Age video games!

[valkyrie]

Most of the names from media I like I get from video games. Here are some of them:

Sophitia [GP], Cassandra, Hildegarde [nn Hilde], Raphael, Siegfried, Viola (Soul Calibur series)
Ridley (Metroid series)
Maria, Richter, Charlotte, Jonathan, Carmilla, Shanoa, Graham, Cruz, Julius (Castlevania series)
Rosa, Cecil, Kain, Lenna, Faris, Terra, Vincent, Elena, Zidane, Freya (various Final Fantasy games)
Lilith, Morrigan, Jedah (Darkstalkers series)

... and the rest:

Elrond, Eowyn, Meriadoc (Lord of the Rings)
Victor, Alicia (Fantastic Four comics)
Diana, Alana, Lorelai (Wonder Woman comics)

[susan11]

My favorite Boys names from movies:
Maverick: Top Gun
Victor: Casablanca
Frodo: The Lord of the Rings
Sam: Transformers
Neo: The Matrix
Ren: Footloose
Jake: Avatar

My favorite Girls names from movies:
Rose: Titanic
Ilsa: Casablanca
Allie: The Notebook
Ariel: Footloose
June: Walk the Line
Tiana: The Princess and the Frog

[annie85]

The Twilight saga:
Alice
Benjamin
Carlisle
Charlotte
Edward
Emmett
Esme
Felix
Garrett
Isabella
Jasper
Lucy
Rachel
Rebecca
Riley
Rosalie Lillian
Victoria

The Luxe saga:
Diana
Elizabeth
Henry

The Mortal Instruments saga:
Alexander 'Alec'
Isabelle
Lucian
Magnus
Maia
Max
Sebastian

The Infernal Devices trilogy:
Cecily
Charlotte (again)
Henry (again)
James 'Jem'
Jessamine
Nathaniel
Sophie
Theresa
William 'Will'

The Hunger Games:
Cecilia
Finnick
Gale (Hawthorne)
Johanna
Octavia
Primrose
Posy (Hawthorne)
Rory (Hawthorne)

A Great and Terrible Beauty:
Felicity
Gemma
Thomas
Pippa

Love Walked In, Belong To Me:
Cornelia
Jasper (again)
Rose
Tobias

Her Fearful Symmetry:
Edwina 'Edie' (though it's more of a guilty pleasure than anything)
Elspeth Alice
Julia
Valentina

Divergent:
Beatrice 'Tris' (haven't read this all the way through, so there's probably more)