Time for another edition of Fangirling on Friday, hosted by Books in the Skye. Today we’re supposed to talk about nicknames, but I can’t really think of good nicknames. So I’m just going to talk about some of my favorite names in general.
I’ve been doing a lot of fangirling over Dragonlance since this series started, but I just love the names in this series!
- Laurana (Lauralanthalasa) – I loved the name so much that’s what I named my daughter!
- Tanis (Tanthalas) – Again, awesome name. Named my boy that.
- Raistlin – I love this name too. Too bad Raistlin turned out to be an evil character, or I would have probably given my boy this name.
- Kitiara – That’s our cat’s name.
Free – Into the Hollow
I thought Free was a pretty cool name. I think it’s short for Freedom. So I guess that is a nickname and it fits into this week’s nickname theme.
Nathalie – Spectacle
This book comes out in February and I’m sure I’ll be fangirling about it plenty in the future. I think this was the first time I’ve ever seen this name, yet I actually ran into it another time this week. Weird.
Cyra – Carve the Mark
Cyra is such a cool name. I’ve mentioned this series quite a few times lately on my blog, since The Fates Divide was one of my favorite books from last year. I should really reread it sometime (I’ve only read the second book once so far). My daughter borrowed the first book in the series so I’ll have to find it first. Or I could read it in Spanish, which I have on my Kindle. I have so many other books I want to read first though.
So those are some of my favorite names in books. I’m sure I’m missing tons. What are your favorite names you’ve come across? Next week on Fangirling on Friday we’re going to talk about my favorite book from January. Maybe I’ll mention two, because there were two that really stood out.
I still love how you got your daughter’s name! These are some great and unique names though – one of the reasons why I like fantasy so much!
Fantasy is one place where you’re only confined to your imagination.
When I was still trying to figure out how I was going to write my book, I decided I wanted an elf as a main character, but I didn’t want her to be white and blonde. Then I realized… it’s my book, I can make her brown with purple hair if I want! And so she is.
I love that your kids have literary-inspired names!
🙂 It’s funny, a fanfic I hope to publish in a few months has a character named after my boy, Tanis. I even gave him a lot of my boy’s personality characteristics (he liked being a book character). People that end up reading it might think the character in my story is named after Tanis Half-Elven when he’s really named after my son.
I once worked with a lady whose boy was also named Tanis. It was pretty cool.
I made a note in my eARC about how much I loved the name Nathalie hahah. So fun that you named your kids after beloved literary names too, that is awesome!
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It’s so weird that I saw this name twice in one month even though I’ve never seen it before. The other book I saw it in was The Last Year of the War.
Nice that you found a name for your daughter in a book. I do love the name Nathalie. I also love the name Genevieve, but the French pronunciation which I leaned after listening to an audio book. I looked it up to see if the name was being pronounced wrong, but nope, they have a much cooler way to pronounce it. I love the name Georgianna from Pride and Prejudice.
Interesting. I don’t know how the French pronounce it. There have been several names I’ve pronounced wrong over the years and I only find out the correct way to pronounce it when I hear the author do an interview.
But there’s one thing about pronouncing something wrong… it means you learned it in a book!
I know this is going to sound like self-promoting but I REALLY love the name of one of my secondary characters. Raw. Short for Rawah which means “Charm, beauty, splendor” in in Arabic, but she likes to be called “Raw” because she likes people to think she is “tough” 🙂
I totally love “Free” as a name! How original and whimsical 🙂
Cyra is my second choice 🙂
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Nothing wrong with self-promoting! You should be proud of your book! I love it when names are meaningful.
I love finding interesting names in the books I read. Thanks for sharing, and enjoy your reading. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Thanks!