What's in a name?

[kestrell]

So, while using Bookshare.Org's search engine to find out if it had any books by Lucian, the Roman writer, I discovered that Roman writers named Lucian are pretty much non-existent on Bookshare, but it does possess a quite significant pile of paranormal romances with a character named Lucien. Actually, just yesterday I read an Ellis Peters mystery set at a folk music seminar in some English gothic pile, and the bad boy folk musician was named Lucien. My brain did just experience a blip at the phrase "bad boy folk musician," but the mystery was written in the mid-1960s, so those were more innocent days, I guess.

Anyway, now I am pondering if anyone has compiled a list of the most-used names for sexy bad boys in paranormal romance, and if anyone will ever write a paranormal romance with a bad boy names something like Kevin, or Frank, although I think one of the prerequisites for bad boy names is that they need to be able to be speeled with some sort of ominous darkly-shaded spelling like...help me out here, what are some gothy bad boy names? I just know there is a lot of territory for satiric fan fic here.

Comments

[alexxkay]

Well, I'm sure Mervyn THINKS that he's a bad boy, grin.