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dark gothic names for girls

335 replies

northernlights0 · 08/05/2021 12:20

So far I have

Raven
Acantha
Adrienne

Thanks 😊

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Ronnii · 08/05/2021 23:17

Letha

Tillygetsit · 08/05/2021 23:06

Some beautiful names on this thread. I love Magenta...shades of Rocky Horror.

EsmeShelby · 08/05/2021 22:37

Persephone
Melisandre
Circe
Hecate
Neva

Gullible2021 · 08/05/2021 22:33

You’ve got to be careful. I almost feel fate intentionally ends up giving the parents the most un-gothy child just to fuck up the fashion/lifestyle statement they made with the name. I know a small child named Nyx. She’s as fair, bonny, blue eyed and rosy cheeked as they come. It means “Goddess of the Night”.

Some cool names on this thread though that aren’t as difficult to live with. I actually know a Wednesday oddly enough and a Narcissa. Sorrow always makes me think of poor Tess Durbeyfield’s dead baby.

Rowena, Morgana etc are all cool. In college I briefly dated an oddball lecturer (I know, I know Hmm) with cats named Lilith and Hecate. He was a genuine sadist with an obsession for Christina Rossetti and “breath play”. I’m sure his eventual children would have had interesting names. And a huge bill for therapy.

YorkiePanda · 08/05/2021 22:06

@ScrollingLeaves

YorkiePanda “Bertha (Jane Eyre/madwoman in the attic)” That name conjures up quite the most unsettling, sad, gothic horror!
Depends how you see the character!
ScrollingLeaves · 08/05/2021 21:54

YorkiePanda
“Bertha (Jane Eyre/madwoman in the attic)”
That name conjures up quite the most unsettling, sad, gothic horror!

ScrollingLeaves · 08/05/2021 21:51

Yes, Annabelle Lee is the ultimate! But probably could not use the Lee so the sense would be list.

isamonster · 08/05/2021 21:46

Desdemona
Hepzibah
Victoire
Violaine
Goneril
Regan
Perdita

Honeyroar · 08/05/2021 21:24

Severina
Lucretta
Marianne
Eve

Beetlewing · 08/05/2021 21:13

Annabel Lee is the ultimate gothy name isn't it? Edgar Allen Poe thought so. You could also have Marceline (the vampire queen)

YorkiePanda · 08/05/2021 20:52

Faythe
Mina (from Dracula) or Minerva
Bertha (Jane Eyre/madwoman in the attic)
Celestia
Vesper

KindnessCrusader · 08/05/2021 20:47

@medebourne she didn't say anything about naming her baby. She might be writing a book and needs inspiration for a character's name.

Hombadigada · 08/05/2021 20:41

Maleficent
Lucifer
Ursula

HotMess21 · 08/05/2021 20:24

@stickygotstuck

It has to be Raven, which is the coolest name and the coolest bird in the whole wide world!

But can I ask, why do several PPs think Elvira is a gothy name? It was my Great auntie's name and we almost gave it to DD.

Beautiful name with a lovely meaning 'joyful' - does not seem very goth to me!

I love that Kate Bush's nephew is named Raven! 😀
Cindie943811A · 08/05/2021 20:22

Delilah
Lucretia
Endora
Cruella
Jezabel

HotMess21 · 08/05/2021 20:18

From "King Lear":

Regan
Goneril
Cordelia

Findingthisdifficult1234 · 08/05/2021 20:13

Or the full name for Zelda is Griselda.
Beautiful name

Findingthisdifficult1234 · 08/05/2021 20:12

Zelda

DenisetheMenace · 08/05/2021 20:08

Narcissa, not Narcussa ! Spellcheck got me (wth is a narcussa? )

DenisetheMenace · 08/05/2021 20:06

Belladonna
Eternity
Narcussa
Freyja
Loralai
Wednesday
Solanine
Faline
Tanda
Morana
Circe
Lisha

Love this thread, thanks OP. Spellcheck’s going nuts, though 😁

BiBabbles · 08/05/2021 20:04

I think the Mistress of Darkness will be the best known in the UK & US fr many, though Elvira is a Spanish name with Gothic (Visigoth) roots. Never seen it mean joy - usually it's all true, truth, or some variant of that, though joy or truth can have a gothic twist.

ScrollingLeaves · 08/05/2021 19:59

Sorry, it is Morgan (le Fey) from King Arthur - I had spelled le Fey wrong before

ScrollingLeaves · 08/05/2021 19:56

Mariana by Tennyson

‘Mariana in the Moated Grange’
(Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)

With blackest moss the flower-plots
Were thickly crusted, one and all:
The rusted nails fell from the knots
That held the pear to the gable-wall.
The broken sheds look’d sad and strange:
Unlifted was the clinking latch;
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch
Upon the lonely moated grange.
She only said, ‘My life is dreary,
He cometh not,’ she said;
She said, ‘I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I were dead!’“

SunsetBeetch · 08/05/2021 19:55

Lenore

SunsetBeetch · 08/05/2021 19:50

Ivy

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