Literary baby names can be inspired the characters in books or, in the case of the baby names on this list, by the first and last names of authors ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Zora Neale Hurston.
 
Along with Emerson and Zora, other names inspired by authors in the US Top 1000 include August, Blake, Cooper, Ellison, Hadley, Langston, Walker, and Willa. Unique literary surnames inspired by female authors include Brontë, Morrison, Didion, and Munro.
 
If you’re looking to make a statement, distinctive literary surnames such as Thackeray or Kerouac, Salinger or Hemingway are dramatic yet name-worthy. You may even consider using the name Author itself, which, believe it or not, ranked in the US popularity charts until WWII.
 
An author-related baby name may inspire a lifelong love of reading in your child. In this category, as always, feel free to look to your personal favorite writers for your baby names inspiration. Here, our selection of literary baby names inspired by authors.

Literary Baby Names Inspired by Authors

Alcott

Amis

Anais

Angelou

Aphra

Auden

August

Austen

Auster

Author

Baldwin

Beckett

Behan

Bellow

Blake

Brontë

Byatt

Byron

Cain

Carson

Carver

Chandler

Cheever

Chimamanda

Conrad

Cooper

Crane

Dante

Dashiell

Didion

Djuna

Dylan

Eliot

Ellison

Emerson

Eudora

Fitzgerald

Flannery

Forster

Frost

Galway

Gide

Glasgow

Gore

Hadley

Hammett

Harper

Hart

Harte

Hemingway

Homer

Hugo

Ishmael

Jarrell

Jerzy

Jesmyn

Jessamyn

Jhumpa

Keats

Kerouac

Kesey

Lafcadio

Lalita

Langston

Lardner

Lionel

London

Lowell

Maya

Mcewan

Milan

Millay

Morrison

Moss

Munro

Neruda

Norris

O'casey

Octavia

Ottessa

Plato

Plum

Raleigh

Rhys

Ring

Roald

Roxane

Rudd

Rumer

Salinger

Saroyan

Shakespeare

Shaw

Shelley

Tennessee

literary baby names inspired by authors

Literary baby names inspired by authors of books and literature, including Harper, Brontë, and Morrison (All Names)

Literary Baby Names Inspired by Authors - All Names