Novel Names

42 Novel names that mean novel for boys, listing Novel baby names 21-40. Douglas, Elmer, Forest, Ivan, Jody, Jude, Kim, Nicholas, Orlando and Orville are popular names. Finnegan, Holden, Ishmael, Jolyon, Mohegan, Nemo, Nickleby, Roark, Selkirk and Theophilus are uncommon names. View Novel baby names for name meanings, or search other baby names.

Douglas ... The lords of these clans are key figures in Sir Walter Scott's novels ... [3]

Elmer ... Sinclair Lewis's well-known novel "Elmer Gantry" (1927) was about a charlatan of a minister ... [6]

Finnegan ... James Joyce's last novel was "Fineegan's Wake". [1]

Forest ... The character Forrest in Winston Groom's novel and the popular film "Forrest Gump" is named for hard-charging Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest (and early member of the Ku Klux Klan) ... [5]

Holden ... Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" is named Holden Caulfield.

Ishmael ... as in Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" ... [4]

Ivan ... Ivanhoe is a medieval variant Sir Walter Scott used for the Saxon hero of his novel "Ivanhoe" ... [4]

Jody ... Jody is the young hero in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Yearling" ... [3]

Jolyon ... Jolyon Forsyte is a character in John Galsworthy's series of novels ...

Jude ... Thomas Hardy wrote a novel named "Jude the Obscure" (1895) ... [6]

Kim ... name of the boy hero of Rudyard Kipling's novel "Kim".

Mohegan ... and were featured in James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Last of the Mohicans". [2]

Nemo ... Literary name: the captain in Jules Verne's adventure novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".

Nicholas ... Dickens' novel "Nicholas Nickleby" ... [61]

Nickleby ... Place name. Made famous by Charles Dickens' novel "Nicholas Nickleby".

Orlando ... Virginia Woolf wrote a gender-bending fantasy novel "Orlando" ... [9]

Orville ... This name was invented by Fanny Burney for a character in her 18th-century novel "Evelina" ... [5]

Roark ... Howard Roark is the protagonist in Ayn Rand's influential novel "The Fountainhead" ... [4]

Selkirk ... Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk is supposedly Daniel Defoe's inspiration for his novel "Robinson Crusoe".

Theophilus ... Biblical name used by Thorton Wilder in his popular novel "Theophilus North" ... [3]

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