Where do they get there names from?

Thank you, Elrel, maybe Tempe is pronounced Tempy then. Though it seems a bit childish for a grown woman.

Maggie - A 5 year old named Temperance was on tv news recently. She was very thoughtful and had supported a charity. She said she was sometimes called Tempy and didn't mind but preferred Temperance.

Thank you for the link Maw, I enjoyed reading it.

www.michaelconnelly.com/about/faq/

I know, I love them. Here Connelly explains why he chose the name.

He`s also a police detective in books by one of my favourite authors, Michael Connelly, but he prefers to be called Harry.

One of his most famous works.

Hieronymous Bosch?

His mum and dad got there first.
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Two answers I have heard
1) place names . Anybody remember Widmerpool in Dance to the Music of Time? (It's on the way to Nottingham)
2) real people -friends (and possibly people who have got up their noses) or in return for a charity donation or even once as a raffle prize!

Ultimately Dickens was the past master of inventing names which came to illustrate their character. Scrooge, Mr Squeers, Dotheboys Hall Mr Gradgrind,

Harry Hole
Hieronymous Bosch

I think Endeavour was a Quaker name. I have a friend called Friendship for the same reason.

I worked with a Wendy about 10 yrs ago who at the time was in her mid 60s. I thought it odd that an older lady was called Wendy
PP first published 1911

And JM Barrie invented Wendy for Peter Pan.

absent Poirot was Belgian.

The name Lorna was invented for Lorna Doone.

I've only read one of Kathy Reichs' books because of the name Temperance Brennan. I could live with that, but the shortening to Tempe jarred every time I saw it. How is that even pronounced- Temp, Tempy, Tempay?

I think that fictional detectives have always had strange names to make them memorable:
Sam Spade
Dirk Gently
Jack Frost
Sherlock Holmes

Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Pussy Galore, and Xenia Sergeyevna Onatopp - Bond villainesses!

Oh silly me re Bathsheba!

I think it is Cormoran not Cormorant BTW
Still pretty strange!

Bathsheba is in the bible. The one David did the dirty on Uriah for.

I read this and assume Hardy with the upbringing of his age would have been more than familiar with the story and the characters?
"Bathsheba is One of the Most Beguiling Characters in the Bible
Whether or not theirs is a classic love story, David and Bathsheba share a powerful bond.

Because it's your post ...... it's been like that since the BIG EXCITING forum changes

I remember hearing somewhere recently that nobody knows where Thomas Hardy got the name 'Bathsheba' (Everdene) from (Far From the Madding Crowd). Racking my brains for other unusual female names, but haven't woken up yet - but sure there must be many!

Why is my post pink?

FarNorth No, but it might be for a Frenchie.

I have always had a great fondness for Tom Stoppard's Foot of the Yard.

Is Hercule Poirot a strange name for a Belgian?