Been noticing a lot of Holdens and Eloises in the sandbox lately? Names from classic children’s books and novels have been heating up, perhaps because parents have such fond memories and associations with these popular characters from their own youth. On the boys’ side, Holden (for Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield), Atticus (the heroic father and lawyer Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird), Rhett (of Gone with the Windfame), and Sawyer and Finn (the last names of popular Mark Twain heroes Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn) have all been climbing the charts.
For girls, our eyes are on Matilda (from the Roald Dahl classic), Frances (the full name of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’s Francie Nolan), Eloise (from Kay Thompson’s popular series about a young girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel), Josephine (the full name of Little Women’s Jo March), Amelia (from the children’s series Amelia Bedelia), Alice (of Wonderland), and Charlotte (the kind spider in E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web). Take a look at this chart to see how these literary namesakes have been trending over the past six years.
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