Dark and delicious names for girls please!

[Trytowin]

Hi, my husband and I are expecting our first baby girl and are stuck for a name. We seem fixated on one but celebs knabbed it which means it's not out but a dampner iyswim. We are both alternative so would love a dark name that's beautiful. Surname is spelt differently but same as Kirstie from location.

So far we have

Luna Fae (fairy in French)
Luna Celeste
Serephina

Undecided on Tabitha (is it cats name?), Willow (what if they are not svelte? Like naming a weedy boy Thor iyswim).

Love but can't have Lily or Violet (already in use), Persephone (too close to mine by sound) and Wednesday is bit try too hard but could be a middle name if she's born on a Wednesday ;-)

All ears if anyone has any ideas. Don't mind more out there names/ spiritual/ natural or unisex names.

Velvet
Salem
Rowan
Aspen

How about Lyra?

Albemarle - met one once and loved the name (though didn't use it ourselves.)

I'd vote for Tabitha (cos it's my little girls middle name ❤️)

tempnamechange77

DARK doesn't necessarily = bad

When someone says "dark" I immediately just think a person would like a more gothic or perhaps exotic name for their child.

Taryn
Desdamona
Nula
Trudy
I have no idea if they are dark they are just names that spring to mind

Twila
Estella
Evangeline
Soraya
Talitha

Tanith.

I haven't had chance to rtft. Has anyone suggested Rowena yet?

Yuki means snow- kind of the opposite of the effect you're after!
Yuki Onna just means woman of the snow.

Undine/Ondine
Selena
Morven
Rowan

Could someone explain why Astrid is seen as dark? It means divine beauty or divine strength. Are they bad things?

Zillah

Mara is the Scottish Gaelic world for "sea". Ceòl-na-Mara means "song of the sea".

Cherry

Elfrida - love it, but didn't have a girl (and probably wouldn't have been braves enough if I had). Elfie is a great nickname.

People really need to stop seeing something dark as "bad". Really gets on my wick!

I was going to suggest Morrigan which is my middle name, but I've just looked it up for the first time ever and it's way darker than I thought! My sister is named after the goddess of love and beauty and I'm named after the phantom queen, thanks mum and dad!

I have a Tabitha and if we were to have another she would be Willow or Meredith. Tabitha means gazelle in Hebrew so not very dark ...

I love Luna too and to hell with the HP connection (my DD is a big fan actually) but it wouldn't go with the surname.

Thanks DangerMouse, I understand better now, 'Gothic' makes more sense to me.

I was thinking of Dark wizards (a la Harry Potter) dark magic etc.

There's also Nox or Nisha, both of which mean night.

Pearl (I just love the name)
Morgana
Chandra (moon)
Aura
Jinx
Tempest

Livia, as in Empress of Rome. Although she'd probably spend rather a lot of time saying 'no, not Olivia, just Livia.

or, Theresa May

Ted Hughes characterises Assia Weevil as Lilith in one of his poems , and that is always what I think of first when I hear it now, ahead even of biblical apocrypha or myth. It has so many sad, woman-blaming associations.

I think Kiera means "little dark one", which might fit quite nicely? Also love Juniper!

Lydia
Esme
Mabel

Xenia
Melinda
Kali
Kala
Ciara
Bella
Elvira
Esme
Lorena
Luna
Matilda
Phoebe
Piper
Astra
Crystal