Men Writer Names
A literary namesake can be a personal connection to a favorite writer. This collection identifies the author behind each choice and includes given names and established author names, with no claim about a future child’s talents.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
James Baldwin, the novelist and essayist. | 11,945#6 | Steady | 1947 | ||
George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. | 2,848#126 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Eric Arthur Blair, who wrote as George Orwell. | 1,256#273 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Walter Scott, the novelist and poet. | 1,381#252 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Harold Pinter, the playwright. | 230#993 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1924 | ||
Arthur Miller, the playwright. | 3,847#87 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the novelist and Nobel laureate. | 6,569#37 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Victor Hugo, the novelist and poet. | 1,664#211 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Ernest Hemingway, the novelist and short-story writer. | 213#1,040 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Julian Barnes, the novelist. | 7,603#25 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Leo Tolstoy, the English form of the Russian writer's given name. | 8,173#19 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Oscar Wilde, the playwright and writer. | 1,620#223 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Edgar Allan Poe, the poet and short-story writer. | 617#486 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Jorge Luis Borges, the short-story writer and poet. | 1,069#323 | Down 47 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick. | 58#2,368 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
August Wilson, the playwright. | 3,958#81 | Up 74 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Edmund Spenser, the poet. | 199#1,082 | Up 335 rank positions in five years | 1923 | ||
Marcel Proust, the novelist. | 364#731 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Jules Verne, the novelist. | 131#1,396 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 1928 | ||
Langston Hughes, the poet and writer. | 227#1,000 | Down 306 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Alexandre Dumas, the novelist. | 67#2,148 | Down 469 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Lev Tolstoy, the Russian writer's given name in transliteration. | 227#1,001 | Up 108 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Umberto Eco, the novelist and scholar. | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Italo Calvino, the novelist and short-story writer. | 11#7,364 | Up 954 rank positions in five years | 1918 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.