Our list of fantasy character names covers a range of mythical names from male fantasy names for humans to dragon names and even names for unicorns.

Boy names for writing stories. This was originally in common use as a male name until Charlotte Brontës novel Shirley in which the titular character is a land-owning woman made it a popular girls name. Some names for boys remain inextricably tied to their literary namesakes such as Heathcliff Gogol Ishmael and Zooey. The name means son of my right hand and has ties to the Old Testament as well as American history thanks to Benjamin Franklin.

Rank in 2016. Scarlett is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchells Gone with the Wind. The name has a nice sound to it and comes from the word scarlet or red.

Here a selection of the most distinctive literary boy names from books. Garrett Logan Zack Charles Perry Oliver Kenneth Ken Brice Dylan Derek Pete Coda Kodi Nigel Anders Ramsey Steve Carey Jessie Dakota Greyson Ryan Maximillian Fredward Danny. Whether youre writing a fantasy story of an old ancient dragon or a whimsical tale of fairies getting attacked by elves we got you covered.

6 no change from 2017 The name Benjamin has been given to over 700000 boys in the past century securing it a spot as the 42 most popular boys name. Read Male Character Names from the story The Book of Names by TheBeautyintheBeast AS with 69002 reads. Along with Atticus and Titus other cool boy names from ancient cultures in the US Top 1000 include Alexander Cassius Cyrus Felix Jasper Magnus Orion and Sebastian.

Funnily enough I have found that the name Andre shows up under themes like manly strong and brave which of course I am in my stories at least. Sorry that this lists are a little funky. Give your characters names that not only begin with different letters but that also sound as dissimilar as possible.

Fictional stories are often set in a particular location and you want your characters last names to respect the cultural conventions of names of that place. If you have Polly and Paul in the same story or even Robert and Rebecca readers will have a difficult time remembering their names. Also I did not come up with any of these and some of the names are a little weird.