The Great Gatsby character names

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age novel of Long Island excess — a hundred years old this year, still the great American novel by general assent.

8 character names from The Great Gatsby. Names linked in teal have their own popularity page with yearly birth counts.

• JayJay Gatsby — the self-made millionaire
• DaisyDaisy Buchanan — Jay's lost love
• NickNick Carraway — the narrator
• JordanJordan Baker — the golfer
• TomTom Buchanan — Daisy's husband
• MyrtleMyrtle Wilson — Tom's mistress
• GeorgeGeorge Wilson — Myrtle's husband
• MeyerMeyer Wolfsheim — Gatsby's business associate

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