Every Tuesday over at the  The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  The topic this week is :

Characters Names that I love

There are plenty of great characters in books and some very memorable names.  Here are my top ten memorable names.

1. Max/Maxim – I love this name- and in fact the novel that I first encountered it in – Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca.
2. Oberon.  What a wonderful name and one we all probably know in terms of him being King of the Fae.  Brought to life in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream it’s a name that I also now associate with a rather large, unkempt and sausage loving wolf hound that keeps Atticus company in Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid Chronicles.
3. I really like the use of the months of the year that Seanan McGuire uses for her Toby Daye series.  I think to date we’ve got characters called  October, January and April – I wonder if we’ll complete the full calendar month?  Kind of hoping that December will be used at some point as that’s my birth month!  *winks at MsMcGuire*
4. The Bastard.  This is the name of a feisty horse, belonging to Imriel in Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series.  It just makes me smile – I’m very easily pleased like that, I know it’s not big and clever but it’s just a name that really seems to fit on this occasion.
5. Inigo Montoya – this character is brilliant and you certainly can’t forget his name – he simply won’t let you.  The Princess Bride by William Goldman
6. Sherlock Holmes – you can’t really ask for a more memorable name.  How on earth you come up with a name like that is a mystery to me but it’s brilliant and a name that everyone knows, whether they’ve read the books or not!
7. Dolores Umbridge – you really do have to hand it to Rowling – this name is inspired and suits the character to perfection!
8. Ebenezer Scrooge – again, a name that everyone knows and more than that uses.  Scrooge has become synonymous with tight fisted miserliness.  Dickens A Christmas Carol.
9. Samwise Gamgee – I don’t need to qualify this one do I!  ‘I ain’t been dropping no eaves sir’!  Okay, Lord of the Rings by JRRTolkien.
10. Dracula – another name that really needs no explanation.  I think everybody must know this name.  Bram Stoker’s famous vampire creation!