Choosing a baby’s name is tough. There’s such a huge choice and so much potential but what if you choose the wrong one??! I spent most of both my pregnancies pondering and discussing with my husband what our babies’ names should be. Now my boys are teenagers and I can’t imagine their names being anything else. Whatever you choose, your baby will grow into their name so the only thing to do is make sure it’s a name you love.
I thought it would be fun to write a series of blogs on baby names, to give you some inspiration. I’m starting with girl’s names that can be found in classic literature because, as you know, I love books! What better way to encourage a love of books, than to give your baby a literary name.
Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Meaning: From the Old French escouter “to listen”
Tess from Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
Meaning: Harvester; to reap
Penelope from The Odyssey
by Homer
Meaning: Weaver, worker of the loom
Anna from Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Meaning: Full of grace
Rebecca from Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
Meaning: Join, tie, snare
Antonia from My Antonia
by Willa Cather
Meaning: Priceless, praiseworthy and beautiful
Dorothea from Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Meaning: Gift of God
Rosalind from As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Meaning: Beautiful rose
Pearl from The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Meaning: Pearl
Estella from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Meaning: Shining star
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