Novel Names

63 Novel names that mean novel for girls, listing Novel baby names 21-40. Desiree, Emma, Esmeralda, Estelle, Evelina, Gigi, Gladys, Gudrun, Heidi, Hester, Janice, Justine and Karla are popular names. Dorrit, Fiora, Harper, Heaven, Imogen, Jancis and Jerusha are uncommon names. View Novel baby names for name meanings, or search other baby names.

Desiree ... a popular novel published in the 1960s traced the biography of the French Désirée Clary from poverty in Marseilles to the throne of Sweden ... [15]

Dorrit ... Probably comes from Charles Dickens's novel "Little Dorrit". [2]

Emma ... title character of the Jane Austen romance novel "Emma" ... [26]

Esmeralda ... which was based on Victor Hugo's novel. [14]

Estelle ... Estella is the name of a character in Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations" ... [12]

Evelina ... name of Fanny Burney's popular 18th-century novel "Evelina". [4]

Fiora ... Maxwell for a lead character in the "Fiddler" series of mystery novels.

Gigi ... the name of a young girl in a French novel by Colette ... [2]

Gladys ... The name was used in several Edwardian romantic novels ... [8]

Gudrun ... Lawrence's 1920 novel ... [10]

Harper ... The name became famous when Harper Lee published her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960).

Heaven ... Andrews novel with that title.

Heidi ... the name of a girl of the Swiss Alps in Johanna Spyri's beloved children's novel "Heidi". [6]

Hester ... Hester Prynne is the much put-upon heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlett Letter". [4]

Imogen ... the name has connotations of the perfect heroine as used in Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline" and Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Heart of Midlothian" ... [7]

Jancis ... First used in the novel "Precious Bane" (1924) by Mary Webb ... [2]

Janice ... Probably first coined as the name of the heroine of the novel "Janice Meredith" (1899) by Paul Leicester Ford ... [19]

Jerusha ... James Michener used the name for the missionary heroine in his novel "Hawaii". [3]

Justine ... Lawrence Durrell wrote a famous novel "Justine" ... [11]

Karla ... in John Le Carré's novel ... [10]

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