One of the icons of American literature, Atticus Finch of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” got a disconcerting revamp in 2015 when author Harper Lee published her long-lost first novel, “Go Set a ...

Many pets have been named Atticus and other characters -- Scout, brother Jem, and the neighbor Boo Radley -- from Lee's first book or last draft, depending on how you read them.

According to the Social Security Administration, the name Atticus has been moving steadily up the list of most popular baby names over the past decade. In 2004, it was ranked the 937th most common ...