dark gothic names for girls

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So far I have

Raven
Acantha
Adrienne

Thanks 😊

Jacinta, Martha, Audrina

Hecate

Pronounced heck-ah-tay

About 15 years ago I met a woman with twin girls called Ruby Red and Roxy Black.
I remember thinking that they were very brave unusual names. They weren't from the UK.

@Foxglovers

Jacinta, Martha, Audrina

I have a Martha and am partial to a touch of the gothic but I have never thought of her name as dark! How funny.

@medebourne

Why on earth would anyone want to choose a 'sinister' name for their baby?! Are you a sinister person? Do you hang out with sinister people? Do you want your child to hang out with sinister people?

Being gothy when you're a suburban teenager and want to shock your neighbours and parents is quite interesting and 'edgy' I suppose, but why put that on your baby?

You might think it's naughty and rebellious to do graveyard chic, but is that seriously what you want for your child?

Here comes the fun police!

Morrigan

*PeskyRooks

ShadierThanaPalmTree

🙄 Jesus christ

I wouldn't use this it might lead to bullying*

Please, please call her Graveyard Chick.

From Cristabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The lovely lady, Christabel,
Whom her father loves so well,
What makes her in the wood so late,
A furlong from the castle gate?
She had dreams all yesternight
Of her own betrothèd knight;
And she in the midnight wood will pray
For the weal of her lover that's far away.

She stole along, she nothing spoke,
The sighs she heaved were soft and low,
And naught was green upon the oak
But moss and rarest misletoe:
She kneels beneath the huge oak tree,
And in silence prayeth she. “

From King Arthur
Guinevere
Iseult
Morgan (le Fay)

Ivy

Lenore

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!’“

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

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.

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

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

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

Zelda

Or the full name for Zelda is Griselda.
Beautiful name

From "King Lear":

Regan
Goneril
Cordelia

Delilah
Lucretia
Endora
Cruella
Jezabel

@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! 😀

Maleficent
Lucifer
Ursula

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

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