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I'm just getting to the replies now - and thank you for this post, because it raised good points. The character in question would've been born in the early 1870s, and David Copperfield would've come out 20 years before, so Uriah would make sense in that respect However, I'm thinking the character's mother would actually have similarities to Uriah Heap and his mother, so not only might it be too on-the-nose but the mother (who hates her son's existence) might not choose it herself, since she made her choice out of bitterness.

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Thinking about Victorian literature, outside of Dickens, got me thinking about Moby Dick and Captain Ahab. The whale took his leg off, so he is single-mindedly pursuing the white whale to its end, a fanatic at the end. And then that got me thinking about the Biblical Ahab, an emasculated king who let his "ungodly" queen lead Israel (at least, that's how conservative Christianity seems to regard the situation). So I'm wondering if it would be best to choose the name of an unfortunate Biblical character.

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