Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite/Unusual Character Names

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish and this week's top ten is character names you love or unusual character names. Mine is a bit of a mashup of the two. My memory is awful so there are probably a whole load I'm forgetting, but after scanning Goodreads, these are the ones that jumped out at me.



Katniss, Prim and Rue

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

 

The Hunger Games trilogy has so many good names, but I'm a sucker for floral names.

 

 

 

Bindy Mackenzie

Becoming Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty

 

I think Bindy's name totally suits her, and it's not a name you often associate with younger characters therefore it stands out in YA.

 

 

 

Nymphadora Tonks and Albus Dumbledore

Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

 

Tonks may hate her name, but I quite like it! And let's face it, Dumbledore is a wonderful word that is fun to say.

 

 

 

Echo

Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

 

I hadn't seen this as a name before and it's such a beautiful word anyway, so it makes an even more beautiful name!

 

 

 

Cassia

Matched by Ally Condie

 

I really love Cassie as a name and there are a lot of Cassies floating around, so Cassia is a nice twist on a familiar name.

 

 

Rain and Reef

Night Witches by L. J. Adlington

 

This book had a lot of interesting and unusual names, and I just read this book so they're are fresh in my mind. I mean the name Rain does make me think of Ross and Rachel from Friends (if you get that reference I want to high five you) but I do really like it. And the two names go well together. 

 

 

 

What are your favourite character names? Let me know in the comments!