Novel Names

63 Novel names that mean novel for girls, listing Novel baby names 1-20. Adela, Amber, Amelia, Antonia, Becky, Brett, Camilla, Candida, Clarissa, Claudia, Claudine, Consuelo, Coralie, Corinna and Corinne are popular names. Cadence, Careen, Carinthia, Catriona and Cimarron are uncommon names. View Novel baby names for name meanings, search Novel names for boys, or search other baby names.

Adela ... It was also made popular in the 1930s as the name of a character in the novels of Dornford Yates ... [10]

Amber ... Amber became popular in the 1960s due to the Kathleen Winsor novel and film, "Forever Amber" ... [5]

Amelia ... Henry Fielding may possibly have first coined it for the heroine of his novel "Amelia" (1751) ... [46]

Antonia ... Willa Cather novel "My Antonía" ... [37]

Becky ... heroine of William Thackeray's novel "Vanity Fair". [1]

Brett ... Lady Brett Ashley was Hemingway's heroine in the novel "The Sun Also Rises". [5]

Cadence ... Cadence Roth is the main character in Armistead Maupin's 1992 novel "Maybe the Moon". Ca ... [8]

Camilla ... The name was made popular in the English-speaking world by Fanny Burney's novel "Camilla" (1796) ... [38]

Candida ... which was based on the name of the hero in Voltaire's 1759 novel "Candide" ... [5]

Careen ... first used in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" for Carreen ... [2]

Carinthia ... First used as a given name after George Meredith used it as the name of his heroine in his novel "The Amazing Marriage" (1895).

Catriona ... Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Catriona" (1893) ... [13]

Cimarron ... It was made famous by an Edna Ferber novel that was the basis for movies made in 1933 and 1961. [3]

Clarissa ... Latin version of Clarice occasionally found in medieval documents and made famous by Samuel Richardson's novel "Clarissa" ... [24]

Claudia ... Colette's novel was named "Claudine at School" ... [20]

Claudine ... made popular in the early 20th century as the name of the heroine of novels by French writer Colette. [1]

Consuelo ... published a historical novel called "Consuelo" ... [6]

Coralie ... Coralie is the name of the French girl in Thackeray's 1850 novel "Pendennis". [4]

Corinna ... The French form Corinne gained literary fame in Madame de Staël's novel "Corinne" (1807) ... [41]

Corinne ... it was used by author Madame de Staël for her novel "Corinne" (1807). [28]

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