Characters with your name.

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 21 May 2015, 00:13

ALynnPowers wrote:YEah, that's a pretty common one. Altthough you don't see a lot of kids with that name these days, huh?

Well, actually, Elizabeth is my middle name!

Rayvin01 · Post by **Rayvin01** » 21 May 2015, 00:34

Not mine either

Ealasaid · Post by **Ealasaid** » 21 May 2015, 09:09

ALynnPowers wrote:YEah, that's a pretty common one. Altthough you don't see a lot of kids with that name these days, huh?

Nope, it's definitely getting to be an older name now. But that's okay with me.

zeldas_lullaby wrote:
ALynnPowers wrote:YEah, that's a pretty common one. Altthough you don't see a lot of kids with that name these days, huh?
Well, actually, Elizabeth is my middle name!

Lucky you!

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 21 May 2015, 09:34

Likewise!!

beebee216 · Post by **beebee216** » 21 May 2015, 10:05

I've never even been able to find my name on a keychain, let alone in a book lol. I would love it if I did though.

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 21 May 2015, 11:17

beebee216 wrote:I've never even been able to find my name on a keychain, let alone in a book lol. I would love it if I did though.

Oh, right, those little trinkets they used to sell with boys' and girls' names on them.

I could never find Meg. There was Margaret, and Megan, but never Meg.

samblack95 · Post by **samblack95** » 21 May 2015, 19:56

I haven't read a book with the name Samantha in it yet, it's always Samuel.

H0LD0Nthere · Post by **H0LD0Nthere** » 21 May 2015, 21:07

Those with my name usually show up as ditzy girlfriends or cheerleader types. Yay. I should have been a Katherine.

The author of the Life With Father books, whose name was Clarence after his father, relates how horrified he was as a boy to discover that the characters named Clarence in the books for boys were always despicable goody-two-shoes.

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My name is Elizabeth, so I tend to see my name in books quite a bit. Particularly historical fiction and non-fiction books.[/quote]

There's a wonderful Anne Tyler book where the heroine is a somewhat unconventional Elizabeth. Another character has a stroke, and after her stroke keeps asking for "Gillespie." Finally her family figure out that she wants Elizabeth to come.

Duende Knocking · Post by **Duende Knocking** » 22 May 2015, 00:51

There are only two fictional characters that I know of with my name.

One is a human rebel in a Tolkien book, and the other is a dragon-slayer in a YA fantasy. That second fact broke my heart when I was a little kid.

ALynnPowers · Post by **ALynnPowers** » 22 May 2015, 03:38

My niece is named Tiphani. Try and find that one!

Carrie R · Post by **Carrie R** » 30 May 2015, 21:30

Yes. The book 'Carrie.' Oddly enough, no one seemed to want me at their prom...

Alexandra Bayer · Post by **Alexandra Bayer** » 31 May 2015, 00:18

I've read at least two or three books with my name in it. It is a bit disorienting.

Misaela · Post by **Misaela** » 01 Jun 2015, 12:01

steinhm wrote:I have a few times, my name is Hannah, which is pretty common. But I have the say the eeriest and also kind of shocking one was a book I was reading about the holocaust, the main character had the same full name as me. It's not surprising because my name is a super common German surname, but still. I'm not Jewish, but it was kind of unsettling to read a book about someone going through the holocaust with the same full name as me.

I'm sure it was eerie! I have a special place in my heart for books regarding the Holocaust, do you remember which one was it?

Lovely_Loreley · Post by **Lovely_Loreley** » 01 Jun 2015, 12:27

I've only ever found one with my name, the Midnighters series by Scott Westerfeld. I remember being super excited about it because she was a main character, but also because her nickname was "queen b*tch" and I thought that was hilarious at the time