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Bye Bye Bella, Hello Katniss: More Parents Naming Their Kids After Hunger Games Characters Than Twilight

Bye Bye Bella, Hello Katniss: More Parents Naming Their Kids After Hunger Games Characters Than Twilight
People been naming their kids after literary characters for since Adam.
Last year Twilight names Bella and Jacob, and Harry Potter were the number one characters to name your kid after — but there are new character names in town.
Here, the top ten hottest character names on Nameberry right now:
Katniss — Katniss Everdeen is the badass star of Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, whose name comes from the (very real) edible aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria.
Atticus — The names of author Harper Lee and all her characters in To Kill A Mockingbird
Darcy- as in Mr. Darcy Jane Austen hero name, but these days it’s enjoying a new turn in the sun as a name for girls.
Eloise — The mischievous little girl who lives at The Plaza has been enjoying more widespread visibility since the death of author Kay Thompson, who had kept the books out of print. Eloise, along with many of its El sisters from Ella to Eleanor, is a newly-fashionable baby name combining the heroine’s worldliness and insouciance.
Gatsby — The Great Gatsby. Duh. The book’s Jay Gatsby gussied up his name from Gatz, whose meaning is given variously as left-handed, cat, God, and person from Gat.
Holden — The name of the alienated young hero of Catcher in the Rye.
Kairi — the name of the main female character in the popular animated fantasy series, Kingdom Hearts.
Rhett — Scarlett O’Hara’a Gone With The Wind companion Rhett, a variation of the (also newly popular) Welsh name Rhys.
Zuzu — the little girl from It’s A Wonderful Life.
Esme — from the J.D. Salinger story For Esme: With Love and Squalor and Twilight fans that don’t know the ride is over.

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Oct 28, 2011 14:00pm PDT

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