17 Baby Names Inspired by Your Favorite Authors

Zadie

Inspired by: White Teeth’s Zadie Smith

Will probably just, like, pen a best-selling novel by the age of 24.

Fitz

Inspired by: The Great Gatsby’s F. Scott Fitzgerald

Keep this kid out of Great Neck.

Virginia

Inspired by: Mrs. Dalloway’s Virginia Woolf

Make sure she has a room of her own…to play.

Harper

Inspired by: To Kill a Mockingbird’s Harper Lee

Don’t tell her to “act like a girl.”

Toni

Inspired by: Beloved’s Toni Morrison

Nobel Prize, anyone?

Dashiell

Inspired by: The Maltese Falcon’s Dashiell Hammett

He’ll take his eggs hard-boiled.

Margaret

Inspired by: The Handmaid’s Tale’s Margaret Atwood

Let her imagination run wild.

Gabriel

Inspired by: One Hundred Years of Solitude’s Gabriel García Márquez

He’ll add a little magical realism to your life.

Agatha

Inspired by: And Then There Were None’s Agatha Christie

She’ll figure out who stole the cookies from the cookie jar.

Leo

Inspired by: Anna Karenina’s Leo Tolstoy

The greatest baby of all time.

Zane

Inspired by: Riders of the Purple Sage’s Zane Grey

Cowboy hat required.

Rice

Inspired by: Interview with the Vampire’s Anne Rice

OK, we know what she’s being for Halloween.

Gillian

Inspired by: Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn

If only the Amazing Amy books were real. She’d fly through ’em.

Curtis

Inspired by: Prep’s Curtis Sittenfeld

Big decision for this little one: public school or private?

Elena

Inspired by: My Brilliant Friend’s Elena Ferrante

A trip to Naples, Italy, is in store.

Ernie

Inspired by: The Old Man and the Sea’s Ernest Hemingway

Will be sparse with his first words.

Charlotte

Inspired by: Jane Eyre’s Charlotte Brontë

Watch out: She’ll want sisters.