Baby Names: Best Names From Literature
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Leave it to great authors to come up with the perfect names. Shakespeare made up Jessica, Olivia and Miranda specifically for the heroines in three of his great plays. And Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie made up the name Wendy. Other authors, like J.K. Rowling, love to choose names that perfectly suit their characters, like the sinister Draco and the brainy (but beautiful) Hermione. If you're looking to be all intellectual and name your newest "edition" after a character in literature, here are some of the best literary names in our baby-name book.
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