| 100% | AMES | 4 | Reverend protagonist of Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” |
| 45% | LILA | 4 | Third novel in Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead" series |
| 44% | LILA | 4 | Marilynne Robinson’s follow-up to “Gilead” and “Home” |
| 38% | ETIENNE | 7 | Protagonist of Zola's "Germinal" |
| 38% | MIRABEL | 7 | Protagonist of Disney's Encanto |
| 38% | GILEAD | 6 | Marilynne Robinson's book about fathers and sons |
| 38% | IDAHO | 5 | Setting for Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping" |
| 38% | TITUS | 5 | Protagonist of Shakespeare's first tragedy |
| 37% | EDIE | 4 | Protagonist of Raven Leilani's "Luster" |
| 37% | SETHE | 5 | Protagonist of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” |
| 37% | ADA | 3 | Protagonist of Akwaeke Emezi's "Freshwater" |
| 36% | AYLA | 4 | Protagonist of Auel's "Earth's Children" novels |
| 36% | JAYGATSBY | 9 | Protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great" novel |
| 36% | LAURENOLAMINA | 13 | Protagonist of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable series |
| 36% | REMY | 4 | Protagonist of Pixar's "Your Friend the Rat" |
| 36% | BENJI | 5 | Protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s “Sag Harbor” |
| 36% | AMES | 4 | Protagonist of Torrey Peters’s “Detransition, Baby” |
| 36% | BLU | 3 | Macaw protagonist of 2011's "Rio" |
| 35% | ROBINSON | 8 | Marilynne —, author of 2004 novel Gilead; winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 35% | ALEX | 4 | Protagonist of Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" |
| 35% | ALMA | 4 | Protagonist of Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke" |
| 35% | CORA | 4 | Protagonist of Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" |
| 35% | PECOLABREEDLOVE | 15 | Protagonist of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” |
| 35% | GOLIGHTLY | 9 | Holly __, protagonist of Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| 35% | PROSPERO | 8 | The protagonist of Shakespeare's The Tempest |
| 35% | TRISPRIOR | 9 | Protagonist of Veronica Roth's dystopian trilogy (2 wds.) |
| 35% | SCOUT | 5 | Protagonist of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| 34% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | Greek hero and main protagonist of Homer's epic |
| 34% | PIG | 3 | The protagonist of Miyazaki's "Porco Rosso," for one |
| 34% | BETH | 4 | ___ Harmon, protagonist of "The Queen's Gambit" |