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There are remarkably few names in the Alice books, as most of the characters are simply known by their descriptions, for example the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts...

The ordinary names which are mentioned in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are those of characters she doesn't meet in the course of the book:

Ada and Mabel are two children she knows

Dinah is the name of Alice's pet cat

Mary Ann is a name which was usually associated with servant girls at the time that the books were written, and the White Rabbit addresses Alice as this, as he has mistaken her for his house maid

Pat and Bill are other servants in the White Rabbit's house (although Alice doesn't meet these characters she does hear them)

William is mentioned in the context of the poem 'You Are Old Father William'

Elsie, Lacie and Tillie are characters in the story told by the Dormouse

In Through the Looking-Glass several of the central characters do have names, but the majority of these are nonsense names:

Lily is the name that the White Queen has given to her daughter

Tweedledum and Tweedledee are the twins who Alice encounters

Humpty Dumpty is of course based on the nursery rhyme

Hatta and Haigha, pronounced hatter and hare, are the characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but given names which sound like their previous descriptions

The flowers Alice meets seem to have names, but these are also just descriptions: the Tiger-lily, the Rose, a Violet etc

And we mustn't forget the most important name of all...Alice

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