Novel Names

42 Novel names that mean novel for boys, listing Novel baby names 1-20. Angel, Ashley, Beau, Cedric and Dorian are popular names. Absalom, Ace, Ahab, Amory, Athos, Atticus, Barnabas, Barnes, Beauregard, Cade, Candido, Cimarron, Clare, Clive and Conan are uncommon names. View Novel baby names for name meanings, search Novel names for girls, or search other baby names.

Absalom ... "Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" Also the title of a tragic novel by William Faulkner ... [7]

Ace ... The term "flying ace" goes back to World War I when planes were both novel and hazardous. [4]

Ahab ... the mad sea captain in Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick".

Amory ... the hero of his first best-selling novel ... [4]

Angel ... as Angel is usually a girl's name (although in Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", a major male character is named Angel Clare.) Both forms are popular in Spanish-speaking countries ... [18]

Ashley ... Ashley Wilkes is the man long loved by Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone With the Wind" ... [16]

Athos Literary: one of the Three Musketeers from Alexandre Dumas' famous novel.

Atticus ... the name of Scout's father in Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" ...

Barnabas ... One of Charles Dickens' lesser-known novels is named "Barnaby Rudge" ... [17]

Barnes ... hero of Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises".

Beau ... Wren's novel "Beau Geste" (1924) or to the character of Beau Wilks in Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" (1936). Nowadays ... [6]

Beauregard ... in Patrick Dennis's novel "Auntie Mame" ... [1]

Cade ... name of a character in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" (1936). [6]

Candido ... Volitaire's famous novel "Candide" makes fun of the theory that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" ... [2]

Cedric ... velvet-suited boy hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel "Little Lord Fauntleroy" ... [11]

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

Clare ... In Thomas Hardy's tragic novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" ... [4]

Clive ... Thackeray used it as a first name in an 1855 novel ... [3]

Conan ... the fictional character from novels and movies in the 1980s ... [4]

Dorian ... in Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" ... [6]

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