| 100% | HIRO | 4 | ___ Protagonist (of Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash") |
| 69% | HIRO | 4 | ___ Protagonist, character in Stephenson’s “Snow Crash” |
| 69% | METAVERSE | 9 | Virtual-reality world depicted in Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash” |
| 62% | METAVERSE | 9 | Tech buzzword that originated in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 dystopian novel, “Snow Crash” |
| 53% | NEAL | 4 | Author Stephenson of "Snow Crash" |
| 47% | JON | 3 | "Game of Thrones" protagonist Snow |
| 45% | ETIENNE | 7 | Protagonist of Zola's "Germinal" |
| 45% | MIRABEL | 7 | Protagonist of Disney's Encanto |
| 44% | TITUS | 5 | Protagonist of Shakespeare's first tragedy |
| 44% | ICECAP | 6 | Permanent covering of frozen snow at the S Pole |
| 43% | NEAL | 4 | "Snow Crash" novelist Stephenson |
| 43% | NEAL | 4 | "Snow Crash" author Stephenson |
| 43% | EDIE | 4 | Protagonist of Raven Leilani's "Luster" |
| 43% | SETHE | 5 | Protagonist of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” |
| 43% | ADA | 3 | Protagonist of Akwaeke Emezi's "Freshwater" |
| 43% | AYLA | 4 | Protagonist of Auel's "Earth's Children" novels |
| 43% | JAYGATSBY | 9 | Protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great" novel |
| 43% | LAURENOLAMINA | 13 | Protagonist of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable series |
| 43% | REMY | 4 | Protagonist of Pixar's "Your Friend the Rat" |
| 43% | BENJI | 5 | Protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s “Sag Harbor” |
| 43% | AMES | 4 | Protagonist of Torrey Peters’s “Detransition, Baby” |
| 42% | BLU | 3 | Macaw protagonist of 2011's "Rio" |
| 42% | ALEX | 4 | Protagonist of Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" |
| 42% | ALMA | 4 | Protagonist of Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke" |
| 42% | CORA | 4 | Protagonist of Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" |
| 42% | PECOLABREEDLOVE | 15 | Protagonist of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” |
| 42% | GOLIGHTLY | 9 | Holly __, protagonist of Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| 42% | PROSPERO | 8 | The protagonist of Shakespeare's The Tempest |
| 41% | TRISPRIOR | 9 | Protagonist of Veronica Roth's dystopian trilogy (2 wds.) |
| 41% | SCOUT | 5 | Protagonist of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" |