How do I love names? Let me count the ways…

Ok, that’s not *exactly* what Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, but I think I’m allowed some poetic license since this is National Poetry Month. In honor of this  celebration, I put together a list of poet-inspired names:

Poet-Inspired Baby Name Ideas

• AUDEN – W. H. Auden
• BARRETT – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• BLAKE – William Blake
• BRONTË – Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë
• CHARLOTTE – Charlotte Brontë
• DOVE – Rita Dove
• DYLAN – Dylan Thomas
• EDGAR – Edgar Allen Poe – Annabelle Lee is a bonus name in honor of one of my all-time favorite poems
• EDNA – Edna St. Vincent Millay
• ELIOT – T. S. Eliot
• ELIZABETH – Elizabeth Barrett Brownin
• ELLA – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• EMERSON – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• EMILY – Emily Dickinson
• GWENDOLYN – Gwendolyn Brooks
• HUGHES – Langston Hughes
• JACK – Jack Kerouac
• JOSEPHINE – Josephine Jacobsen
• KHALIL – Khalil Gibran
• KIPLING – Rudyard Kipling
• LANGSTON – Langston Hughes
• LÉONIE – Léonie Adams
• LOUISE – Louise Bogan
• LUCY – L. M. Montgomery
• MARLOWE – Christopher Marlowe
• MAYA – Maya Angelou
• OSCAR – Oscar Wilde
• PENN – Robert Penn Warren
• PERCY – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• TASSO – Bernado and Torquato Tasso
• TATE – Allen Tate
• WHITMAN – Walt Whitman
• WILLA – Willa Cather
• WILLIAM  – William Shakespeare

What is your favorite poet name? Let me know what names you’d add to the list.

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Happy naming ♥ Amanda