When a writer does it, though, it somehow adds credibility to a name. A created name is okay, as long as someone else created it?
Boys:
- Cedric (SED-rik)--Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
- Figaro (FIH-gar-oh)--"The Barber of Seville", Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- Orville (OHR-vil)--"Evelina", Fanny Burney
- Percival (PUR-si-val)--"Perceval, the Story of the Grail", Chrétien de Troyes
Girls:
- Amanda (ah-MAN-dah)--"Love's Last Shift", Colley Cibber
- Arline (ahr-LEEN)--"The Bohemian Girl", Michael William Balfe
- Ayla (AY-lah)--Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel
- Cora (COHR-ah)--The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
- Haidee (HAY-dee)--"Don Juan"; Byron, Lord Tennyson
- Imogen (IM-o-jen)--"Cymbeline", Shakespeare. A two-fer! Shakespeare originally wrote Innogen (Gaelic, "maiden"), but it was misprinted.
- Janice (JAN-is)--Janice Meredith, Paul Leicester Ford
- Jessica (JESS-ih-kah)--"The Merchant of Venice", Shakespeare
- Loredana (loh-reh-DAH-nah)--Mattea, George Sand
- Lorna (LOHR-nah)--Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmoor
- Lucinda (loo-SIN-dah)--Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
- Melinda (mel-IN-dah)--"The Recruiting Officer", George Farquhar
- Miranda (meer-AN-dah)--"The Tempest", Shakespeare
- Myra (MYE-rah)--"Myra"; Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
- Nerissa (nehr-ISS-ah)--"The Merchant of Venice", Shakespeare
- Norma (NOHR-mah)--"Norma", Felice Romani
- Nydia (NID-ee-ah)--The Last Days of Pompeii, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Olivia (oh-LIV-ee-ah)--"The Twelfth Night", Shakespeare
- Ophelia (oh-FEE-lee-ah)--"Arcadia", Jacopo Sannazaro
- Pamela (PAM-el-ah)--"Arcadia", Sir Philip Sidney
- Perdita (pur-DEE-tah)--"The Winter's Tale", Shakespeare
- Stella (STEL-lah)--Astrophel and Stella, Sir Philip Sidney
- Vanessa (van-ES-sah)--"Cadenus and Vanessa", Jonathan Swift
- Wendy (WEN-dee)--"Peter Pan", J. M. Barrie
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