Oct 16, 2025
Literary Ladies: Unique names from Books
Literary name inspiration by way of some of the more uniquely named female characters in novels and plays–Amaryllis and Alabama, Rain and Blue .
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Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.
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