Top Ten Characters (and Literary Figures) That I’d Name My Pets After
44November 5, 2012 by Alice in Readerland
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish
I love animals (I live with 2 cats, a dog, and a parakeet), so when this week’s Top Ten Tuesday was a Top Ten Tuesday Freebie where I could make up whatever topic I wanted, I knew I had to make a list of my top ten choices of characters (and literary figures) that I’d name my pets after.
- Sherlock (From Sherlock Holmes): I came thiiiis close to naming my cat Sherlock.
- Frost (After poet Robert Frost): Frost is such a cute name!
- Polka Dot (From the Ruby Oliver series): I love Ruby Oliver’s Great Dane and Polka Dot’s an adorable name!
- Harper (After author Harper Lee) Because To Kill a Mockingbird was an amazing book.
- Cheshire (From Alice in Wonderland): Oh, yes. One day I will have a cat and it will be named Cheshire. Yes.
- Shakespeare (After playwright William Shakespeare): Of course Shakespeare had to appear on this list.
- Onyx (From The Gallagher Girls series): Onyx is such a beautiful name. For you GG series fans out there, yes, I do prefer Onyx over Suzie as a cat name. ;)
- Koko (After The Cat Who series): Koko’s a cute name and I love “the cat with the 60 whiskers.”
- Blackberry (From Watership Down): Watership Down is my favorite fiction book and Blackberry is my favorite rabbit from the story.
- Hobbes (From Calvin and Hobbes): Okay, okay, so Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip but I adore Hobbes and came very close to naming my cat Hobbes.
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What character (or literary figure ) would you name your pet after?
Alice in Readerland 
I’ve seen compilation books of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, so I think it’s allowed. (; haha Sherlock would be such a great name for a cat! Cute list idea!
Thanks for stopping by! :) I’m definitely going to have to name one of my future pets Sherlock!
I love Sherlock as a pet name! I might have to steal that some day.
My house has some stuffed animals named after Beowulf, Wiglaf, and Roland. We need someone else to name Oliver so Roland isn’t alone!
Thanks for sharing your name picks! :)
If i had to just pick one of those i would choose onyx . love it Check out our Top Ten Fictional Crushes Katie @ INkk
Thanks; I’ve loved the name Onyx since I first read it!
I would so name my pet Sherlock! Awesome list :-)
Thanks for stopping by! :) I’m definitely going to have to name one of my future pets Sherlock!
I would name them after some Harry Potter characters <3 And recently I saw the movie 'John Carter' and the dog was called 'Whoola' and I liked it :p
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‘Whoola’ sounds cute! Thanks for stopping by! :)
Great names! I did I post on naming my kids with literary names :D Also works on pets ^^
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p.s.: you have a cute blog :)
Thanks so much!!! :)
so if you didn’t name any of your pets those names what did you name them?
My 2 cats are Toulouse and Figment, my dog is Einstein, and my parakeet is Paradox. Thanks for stopping by and asking! :)
Those would all be such cute names! I’m not much of an animal person, but I’ve considered getting a bunch of fish and naming them after various fictional characters.
Thanks for stopping by & commenting! :)
This was the cutest list ever! Great idea! I love the name Sherlock :)
Thanks so much! Glad you liked the list, I had a lot of fun writing it! :) Thanks for stopping by!
I agree with you on Cheshire!
I definitely want to name a cat of mine Cheshire one day! :) Thanks for stopping by!
I <3 animals and there are so many shelter animals out there that need help; so thanks for the links, I'm going to check them out now!
Yay! So glad you like the links! :) Thanks for stopping by!
This is such a fun top ten idea! I love the idea of pets named after literary characters. Our dog is named Hrothgar (from Beowulf) and when we get a puppy in the next year or so he will most likely be named after a Lord of the Rings character.
Check my Top Ten Favorite Fictional Families: http://wp.me/2zoUo
I’d love to hear what you think!
Thanks for sharing your name picks, I had a lot of fun writing this list! :) Thanks for stopping by!
Such a great idea for a list. I am also now following you too :D
Thanks so much for the follow!!! :)
I named my puppy Dobby, but I think I should have went with Voldemort!
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I love your idea for this week’s TTT! :D
II would totally name a pet Sherlock or Cheshire :)
Thanks for stopping by my TTT!
Thanks so much, I had a lot of fun writing this list! :) Sherlock & Cheshire are my 2 favorite names off the list; thanks for stopping by!
Cool list! Books and authors are good inpiration for names (pet names more than kid names I agree). I love Ruby’s dog’s name as well, but I guess I am a little biased! Anyway thanks for stopping my My TTT
Thanks for commenting & stopping by; gotta love Polka Dot! :)
What a fun TTT theme idea! I’m going to steal it sometime soon (just letting you know!) I’m pretty sure author Maureen Johnson has a cat named Sherlock and my future sister-in-law has a a cat named Harper. I think I’d definitely name a cat Hermione….its so cute! :)
Thanks for stopping by! If you do write a post, please link me to it; I’d want to read it! :)
I created a list like this a few months ago. I actually named my dog Daphne after Daphne DuMaurier. My friend once said I was a pet name generator because I have all these names I want to name pets. Someday I am going to get a Newfie and name him/her Hagrid. I think that is a perfect name!!
Thanks for sharing your name picks! :)
I love these names! I even was imagine naming a pet Onyx :) Love the GG reference!
My TTT: http://blueskyshelf.blogspot.com/2012/11/top-ten-tuesday-fictional-crushes.html
Thanks! :) I’m excited for GG6!
I did name my cat after a fictional character! He’s called Sancho much like Don Quixote’s squire in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes. I figured if the name was good enough for Don Quixote’s sidekick then it was good enough for mine :P
If I ever get another cat (or my first ever dog!) I think I’ll probably name it after a character from the Princess Bride. Westley, Inigo, Fezzik… I love those names.
I really liked this list! I may have to steal the topic at a later stage for myself.
I love that you named your cat Sancho (I’m a fan of the novel and the musical)! Names from the Princess Bride also sound great; I had a lot of fun writing this list! Thanks for stopping by & commenting!
I came sooo close to naming my new kitten Sherlock, too! I decided that if I ended up getting two kittens, I’d name them Sherlock and John, but in the end, I only got one. I named my little baby Atlas, after the novel Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
If I had gotten a female kitten, my top name was Scout, from To Kill a Mockingbird, and my second favourite name was Alaska, from Looking for Alaska by John Green.
Looking for Alaska is one of my favourite books, and I also love the name Miles, which I got from it.
I wouldn’t name a pet Hobbes, but I absolutely love the name Calvin.
Watership Down was my favourite book when I was younger. I love Blackberry, and I also like the name Hazel.
If I ever got another kitten, I think I would name it Miles if it was a boy, and Scout if it was a girl.
I think Atlas, Miles and Scout go together alright! :P
Your post was great :D
Thanks for sharing your name picks, I had fun reading them! :)
My cat is named Dinah, after Alice’s cat, and also for Dinah Bellman in Stephen King’s The Langoliers. That Dinah is a kind little girl who can’t see, but has remarkable hearing and some visions about people’s thoughts and some future events. My Dinah is a sweet little girl, too.
Thanks for sharing your name pick!!! :)